Finasteride: Does It Affect Spermatogenesis and Pregnancy?

December 2001 in “ PubMed ”

Meena Pole, Gideon Koren

Studysummary In this review, the authors found no evidence of harmful pregnancy outcomes from exposure to finasteride, and report that handling the medication poses negligible risk to a fetus.

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