Nonoxynol-9 Microbicidal Ineffectiveness Cited In JAMA Study, Editorial
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A recent study on nonoxynol-9 gel confirms its inadequacy as a microbicide and lends further proof of its suspected irritant effects, according to an editorial in the March 6 Journal of the American Medical Association
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