Islander
02-04-12, 09:45 AM
February 2, 2012 (http://healthland.time.com/author/tiffanysharples/)
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(Ivanhoe Newswire)--The perfect male birth control contraceptive would be cheap, reliable, and reversible. It would have few side effects and would be long lasting. A new study used therapeutic ultrasound equipment in the sperm count reduction of male rats to levels which would result in infertility in humans.
Ultrasound's capabilities as a male contraceptive were first acknowledged almost 40 years ago. Although the equipment used back then is now outdated and no longer around, researchers from the Department of Pediatric at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine were able to use the experiments done as a starting point to examine whether or not modern ultrasound equipment used for physical therapy could also be used as a male contraceptive.
Read more: http://search.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=28894&channelid=CHAN-100011
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(Ivanhoe Newswire)--The perfect male birth control contraceptive would be cheap, reliable, and reversible. It would have few side effects and would be long lasting. A new study used therapeutic ultrasound equipment in the sperm count reduction of male rats to levels which would result in infertility in humans.
Ultrasound's capabilities as a male contraceptive were first acknowledged almost 40 years ago. Although the equipment used back then is now outdated and no longer around, researchers from the Department of Pediatric at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine were able to use the experiments done as a starting point to examine whether or not modern ultrasound equipment used for physical therapy could also be used as a male contraceptive.
Read more: http://search.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=28894&channelid=CHAN-100011