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...case, scientists have been working overtime to provide the option. While women ovulate only once a month, men produce millions of sperm every day, which poses big challenges for a male "pill." Birth-control pills for women are effective almost immediately. For men, it takes longer for a drug to start working and to wear off--about three months in Handelsman's study...
Implants? Injections! In surveys on contraception, men say they would prefer a pill, but researchers point out that an implant or an injection is far more reliable. Most women have trouble remembering to take the pill. "If we were inventing a female contraceptive right now, it wouldn't be in pill form," says Handelsman. Further research needs to be done to ensure that the added testosterone won't lead to prostate problems. Ideally, the treatment for men would involve only rare visits to the doctor and no injections. "In general, when you're going to do a male work...
Male motivation, or the lack of it, has a lot to do with why a pill for men has been so long in coming. Since the 1930s, scientists have known that testosterone supplements can lower sperm production. In the '70s they began tests to make a male pill. "In truth," says Handelsman, "[it] really should have been invented in the '60s." But nothing stalls science faster than questionable demand. The belief was--and often still is--that men are just not interested in controlling their fertility. "Even at the best of times, most men are not great at thinking through...
There is no pill that does for women what Viagra does for men--yet. Some doctors have experimented with the male hormone testosterone to enhance a woman's libido, but without the benefit of rigorous trials. Now a new study, conducted by Dr. Glenn Braunstein at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A., has taken some of the uncertainty out of testosterone therapy. Nearly 450 women who had lost their ovaries were given either a testosterone patch or a placebo. After six months of treatment, the women on 300 mcg of testosterone a day reported an 81% increase in satisfying sexual...
...even if you could buy PYY in pill form, it might not work. The appetite is a complex system with many subtle triggers and controls. Remember leptin, the wonder hormone that seemed to make mice thin? A drug company paid tens of millions of dollars for the development rights in the mid-1990s only to discover that obese people were immune...