New drug for two headaches?
NZPA London Doctors believe they may have found a male contraceptive pill, by complete accident. A group of men testing a new anti-migraine drug reported an odd side effect — orgasm without ejaculation. Some of the “guinea pigs,” aged 19 to 47, said they had normal intercourse but produced no semen. Doctors making the study then suggested the drug might be developed as a male contraceptive. , The findings are contained
in the “British Medical Journal” and the study was made by two doctors and a pharmacist based at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. One of the team, Dr Julian Critchley, said: “We need somebody to do a study of this drug’s sexual side effects. “When we stopped giving the drug to the men, sex went back to normal,” he said. The drug Indoramin (pronounced in-dora-mean) is one of a relatively new group of chemicals.
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