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  1. Too boring for the FDA and their cronies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages

    Just plain-old heat

  2. Real problem is estimated market size, not tech by celest · · Score: 1 · on Reversible Male Contraception With Gold Nanorods

    The real problem is that pharmaceutical companies don't think there is a market for male contraceptives. It has nothing to do with technologies. There have been many effective, reversible, non-invasive procedures in human trials for the past 30 years:

    http://www.malecontraceptives.org/

    The issue is that "most men" think contraceptives are "unmanly" and will "never take them". At least that's what several doctors have personally told me when I was investigating contraceptive options. Nothing will move forward until there is a (at least perceived) cultural shift towards the acceptance that males should be responsible for their own fertility, creating a (at least perceived) market to justify the large capital expenses required to finalize and make available the various drugs and procedures.

  3. Re:Promies, promises... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility

    Someone else posted this earlier. Maybe worth looking in to.

  4. Re:Awesome by CityZen · · Score: 1 · on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility

    Here's a better way: http://malecontraceptives.org/methods/risug.php

  5. adjudin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive

    http://malecontraceptives.org/methods/adjudin.php It is very effective and most importantly safe. You only need an injection of it every few months, and it is bound to an inactive version of the FSH hormone that only gets picked up by one place in the body, the testes. It is perfect and I want it now!

  6. Re:Exaggeration by thc69 · · Score: 1 · on Report Says Patents Prevent New Drugs
    The headline draws rather a long bow. [...] "patents encourage innovation, by allowing developers to enjoy profitable monopolies on their inventions which in turn inspire them to create new inventions" - this is still true.
    Well, actually, there is at least one example of which I'm aware where the patent system discourages the development of a new drug. Witness the male contraceptive pill. There is an existing drug, whose patent has expired, which shows much promise as a male contraceptive pill, but which is not being developed for that use because it cannot be patented again. Meanwhile, I gotta use a rubber when making love to my wife! (Yes, we've thoroughly investigated other options, none of which are quite right for us.)

    From http://www.malecontraceptives.org/methods/nifedipi ne.php :
    "...the patents on the formulation of nifedipine have expired. Other drug companies have begun manufacturing generic nifedipine, undercutting the drugs price. Because they no longer retain the exclusive right to manufacture nifedipine, large drug companies have little incentive to invest in developing it as a contraceptive."

    Although, really, the patent system isn't discouraging, but rather it is not encouraging.
  7. Re:Early stories by IdahoEv · · Score: 2, Informative · on MacBook Pro Batteries Swelling and Failing

    There's a lot of truth to that joke.

    There's a particular anti-hypertension drug (nifedipine.php) that suppresses fertility in men; enough that it could conceivably be used as a contraceptive pill. This has been known for fourteen years, but the drug manufacturer has been suppressing the info and lobbying against research of nifedipine as a contraceptive, afraid that it will hurt sales of the drug as an antihypertensive.

    This kind of baffles me. It's a short-term effect, and do most people really want to have a pregnancy most of the time. I would think that even for married couples the preferred state would be to not have a baby until you make a positive decision that it's time. Then you switch to a different hypertensive for a couple months until you conceive, then switch back. I really would imagine that this is a feature not a bug.

    But everyone seem convinced that men want to have babies all the time, and therefore would feel that anything that temporarily reduces fertility is a bad thing.

    I don't know any guys who feel that way, do you? In my experience, most people are worried about accidental pregnancy a fair amount of the time.

  8. Abortion is not a good example by linzeal · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London
    We should outlaw abortion because it is skewing populations in industrialized nations to the point where Japan has no idea how they will take care of nearly 30% of the population when they hit their 60's. We should outlaw abortion because it is cheaper to provide free contraception. We should outlaw abortion because ~10,000 abortions per year are done on 6 month old children. We should outlaw abortion because in the future with better contraception it will be considered murder by everyone. We should outlaw abortion because we are more civilized than Sparta where they left the weak children to die of exposure on the side of mountains.

    If I ever run for president I say, free contraception for both males and females!