Tap Off, No Risk of Pregnancy: Flemish Company Helps Build Revolutionary Alternative to the Pill

A “lock” or tap in the fallopian tube, which you can open and close whenever you want: it could become a revolutionary new form of contraception. The clinical research will start soon, a Flemish company is helping to design it.

In May 1960, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first oral contraceptive, which marked a before and after both in the history of reproductive health and in the autonomy of women, who could now plan motherhood. This scientific innovation is 65 years old and was preceded by decades of research, as the first studies began in 1930. Thereafter, it was followed and continues to work on its optimization experimenting with…