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Hormone Combo May Provide Reversible Male Birth Control Tool


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The review authors also found that it's difficult to predict which men will respond best to this combination hormonal contraception.

"Considerable progress has been made toward finding an effective combination of these two hormones. However, the current analysis didn't take into account the different types of progestins, so more research will need to be done to find the optimum therapy," Liu said.

The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

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The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about birth control.

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SOURCE: Endocrine Society, news release, March 25, 2008


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