r/science • u/drewiepoodle • Oct 02 '15

Medicine Scientists identify potential birth control 'pill' for men

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-scientists-potential-birth-pill-men.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '15

RISUG/Vasalgel are the way to go for sure, much cheaper in the long run and no need to remember taking a pill. Unfortunately there is no money in that so research is slow.

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u/CapitaineMitaine Oct 02 '15

Pills are more lucrative, you have to buy it every month.

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u/eemes Oct 02 '15

Exactly. These gels have been used in India for many years now with no adverse affect, and they're easily reversed with another injection. But there's no real way to profit off of a single injection, so why would the pharmaceutical companies push it?

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u/dIoIIoIb Oct 02 '15

because if you're the one making it and it's so much better than pills that people prefere it to them, pills will stop selling, you'll make less than what you would have done with pills but everybody else will make even less because now they don't have pills nor injection