Injectable Male Contraceptive Temporarily Effectively Lowers Sperm Count, Study Indicates.

reports that the injectable contraceptive shot that temporarily “lowers sperm count” may provide men with “an alternative that is more reliable than condoms and more reversible than vasectomies,” the findings of the study published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggest. The 320 study participants, whose sperm counts were “normal,” were given two injections of “a long-acting progestogen and a long-acting androgen.” Overall, “it took an average of eight months for the average sperm count to be reduced low enough to be considered effective,” investigators found. http://www.nj.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2016/10/male_birth_control_could_be_as_easy_as_a_monthly_s.html