Researchers have made a breakthrough that could represent a major step forward in making the male "pill" a reality. The Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Drug Discovery's research focused on a ...

Male birth control is progressing. The first of its kind, a hormone-free male birth control pill, has been deemed safe for humans, Scientific American reported last month. But the question is, would ...

For decades, abortion opponents swore that they had created a single-issue movement and had no interest in changing access to ...

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For decades, scientists have been trying to develop a male contraceptive similar to the birth control pill that can be taken orally and is reversible, with minimal side effects. An oral male ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A recent clinical trial suggests YourChoice Therapeutics’ newest oral male contraceptive could be side-effect-free. The study administered the drug ...

For decades, the responsibility for birth control has fallen largely on women, but new research suggests a birth control pill for men might one day become a reality. How does it work? It targets a ...

Illustration by the Atlantic. Source: SSPL / Getty. “From the get-go, the researchers involved in developing male contraception have paid extra- close attention to: Can we develop products for which ...

In the world of family planning, birth control methods have remained largely the same for men for decades, relying primarily on condoms and vasectomies. Hormonal birth control, shots and pills, on the ...

There’s certainly nothing wrong with avoiding birth control, taking a nonhormonal approach to it, or having a large family.