Male Birth Control Vasalgel (RISUG) Ready For Human Trials This Year?

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Could this be the best birth control out there?

Why Don’t We Have Male Birth Control?

As the joke goes, male birth control is ten years away– and it has been for decades. Of course, that’s inaccurate. In fact,

Possible Male Birth Control?

In India right now, RISUG– the reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance– is undergoing Phase III clinical trials. If it ends up working out, RISUG would make a truly amazing contraceptive. It’s a “set it and forget it”contraceptive, like Depo or an IUD: the procedure takes fifteen minutes, is effective after three days, and lasts [...]

Men to Feds: Are We in this Together, or Not?

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The Affordable Care Act requires everyone to carry insurance. So why doesn’t it give men and women the same coverage? Part two of a series on the ACA.

Male Contraception Methods You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

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One method of male contraception is safe and practically free, but few men have heard of it.

Feds to Men: Buy Your Own Aspirin and Put It Between Your Knees

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Men will be paying more for insurance than they have in the past, yet receiving fewer covered services than women, under the ACA. Part one of a two-part series on the sex discrimination built into the U.S. Affordable Care Act.

Contraception: 4/2

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Family planning involves men … but are we committed?

A ‘Male Pill’ Could Have Changed My Life

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‘I’m a well-educated adult man, but at the time I felt like a 17-year-old girl who’d gotten knocked up in the backseat of a car.’

Real Birth Control for Men Is Closer Than Ever

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Men simply don’t have an effective, reversible form of birth control comparable to the female pill. What’s taking so long?

Male Birth Control Takes a Step Forward in the U.S.

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RISUG involves injecting a compound into your vas deferens that makes sperm unable to penetrate the egg. It’s effective for 10 years and easily reversible. Would you consider it?