Intra Vas Device (IVD), New Male Contraceptive That Targets Sperms Instead of Hormones

Filed in archive Studies , Treatment on May 11, 2006

The culmination of the promise of a new male contraceptive is near to come.

Elaine Lissner, director of the nonprofit Male Contraception Information Project, is cautiously optimistic. "The Holy Grail of contraception is a long-term, reversible method without any hormonal side effects," she said.

The new male contraceptive researchers very recently have been approved by the USFDA to go ahead with the 90-man study of the Intra Vas Device (IVD). IVD is a non-hormonal contraceptive that stops sperm in their tracks; a male contraceptive method that is reversible unlike vasectomy.

Men don't have to wait long, before they knew it, the IVD once approved will be available to patients.

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