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A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive (www.wired.com)

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A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive::Biotech company Contraline has safely implanted a sperm-blocking hydrogel in 23 men. It’s designed to be a fully reversible vasectomy.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago

The problem I've read with Vasalgel is that they had trouble getting enough voulenteers to test it. Trials are dragging out. It does appear to work otherwise.

I was holding out on it for a while, but ended up getting a vasectomy.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I thought that it, and the vasclips, had both failed in the larger clinical trials at achieving birth control rates that were even on par with hormonal BC. This is what I'm remembering from like seven or either years ago though (and internet search is such garbage now that I don't know if I could find the sources I'm remembering).; there might be a different formulation now, or something.

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