birth control

A major UK medical journal says that the birth control pill should be available to women without a prescription, since it has been shown to prevent deaths from ovarian cancer. Another British medical journal is investigating whether consistent condom use can reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections other than HIV.

In the January 25th edition of the Independent, Jeremy Laurance writes: “The contraceptive pill should be made available to women over the counter after the largest study of its link with ovarian cancer showed it has prevented 100,000 deaths from the disease worldwide.”
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Women are growing tired of being the ones responsible for birth control and keep hoping that male birth control will soon become a reality. That day may be drawing closer.

Researcher John Herr has discovered new protein within a sperm’s tail that could prove a key target for male contraceptive drugs. He says, “One approach to male contraception is to disable sperm from swimming, and we think [this] may be able to play a role in that process.” The name for the new class of male contraceptives is ?intelligent spermicides,? because they target a specific part of the sperm.
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Over the years, we?ve regularly reported on the progress of every woman?s dream: a birth control pill for men. This new day may be dawning soon.

Jeanna Bryner writes in LiveScience.com that researchers have discovered that male mice that have been bred without a certain protein, which is also found in human males, have reduced fertility. There is hope that this discovery could lead to a non-hormonal birth control pill for men. Let?s just hope they don?t treat men who want the pill as badly as they treat women!
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