Male birth control study cut short as some participants experience side effects
This headline is horribly editorialized.  Can we have it changed to "Male Birth Control Study terminated due to safety concerns"?<p>Of note, 75% of the trial participants reported that they would have continued with this treatment if it were available, even after being informed that it was being terminated due to safety concerns, and the (male) study participants reported being more satisfied with the treatment than their (female) partners did.<p>Conversely, the adverse events extremely high rates of changed (mostly increased) libido, mood disorders, and pain (both at the injection site and elsewhere); and out of 320 trial participants there were two attempted suicides (one successful -- which the researchers attributed to academic pressure, but suicides rarely have a just a single cause).  If the female birth control pill had the same safety profile, it would be <i>the leading cause of death in 20-45 year old women</i>.