WSU researcher: Fund male contraceptive science as women’s health issue

WSU researcher: Fund male contraceptive science as women’s health issue

PULLMAN, WA – Decades ago, when he was a post-doc attending conferences, Wei Yan began to doubt the prevailing thinking behind efforts to develop a male contraceptive pill. Most researchers at the time were focused on finding either a hormonal method of interfering with sperm production or a non-hormonal approach aiming to eliminate all sperm cells. But Yan suspected that anything that targeted sperm production in a comprehensive fashion would c…