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Male birth control pill to enter human trials in 2022

Male birth control pill entering human trials

April 11, 2022:

The University of Minnesota is close to kicking off human trials for a male birth control pill. Researchers have developed a pill for men that was found to be 99 percent effect in mice. But would men even take it? Plus, an update on another scientific breakthrough, and learn what it means to “shoulder the burden.”

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Shoulder the burden

When you “shoulder the burden,” you are doing something that is stressful, painful, or emotionally difficult, and you’re often doing it for someone else.

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Male birth control pill to enter human trials in 2022

Shoulder the burden

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