Using male hormonal contraception to control teenage pregnancy rates
Posted by Mike Malone | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 07-07-2010-05-2008
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Using the “Male pill” to control unwanted teenage pregnancies? Just looking through some of the recently published studies, and this one caught my eye.
There have been a few papers published recently looking at male hormonal birth control (summary:- long way off as ever). The report states that there are several methods of birth control available to adolescents, but they aren’t used effectively. It looks at the possibility of using injectable hormonal birth control to control that rate of unwanted teenage pregnancies.
All sounds fine BUT….. they then go on to question if giving hormonal contraception to adolescent males is a good idea. The authors question if bone maturation might be affected using the prescribed doses – specifically they feel it might induce premature closure of the epiphyseal joints.
