Female Sex-Drive Patch Needs More Study -Panel
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GAITHERSBURG, Md.  - Procter & Gamble Co.'s  testosterone patch for boosting female sex drive needs  longer-term testing for serious side effects before it can win  approval, a U.S. advisory panel unanimously ruled on Thursday.
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For two decades, scientists have raced to carry out the first successful ovary transplant in women. The goal has not been to &quot;reverse the menopause&quot;, but to restore
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GAITHERSBURG, Md.  - Procter & Gamble's skin patch  to boost sex drive in women may pose serious long-term risks  and should not be approved without further study, critics told  a U.S. advisory panel on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to review the safety and effectiveness of Procter &amp; Gamble&#39;s testosterone transdermal patch, heralded as &quot;Viagra&quot; for women.
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IT HAS been hailed as the female Viagra - a panacea for women who have lost their sex drive. But the testosterone patch is now facing a battle for regulatory approval amid claims that its effect is minimal and it may have fatal side effects.
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Tens of thousands of women are being urged to take part in a 50-year study designed to better understand the causes of breast cancer - a disease which kills around 13,000 women every year.
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A hormone patch that works to restore a woman&#39;s sex drive should not be approved until more studies are completed to determine the drug&#39;s risks, US health advisers said Thursday.
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Women will likely have to wait several more years for a sexual-dysfunction treatment following a Food and Drug Administration advisory board vote Thursday that the agency should not approve a sex-hormone patch.
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An FDA advisory panel voted unanimously not to approve Protcer &amp; Gamble&#39;s testosterone patch, Intrinsa, for the female treatment of low sex drive (libido).
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Young women with low libido had good  sex more often after using a testosterone spray, Australian  researchers said on Thursday.
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A hospital here is taking part in a clinical trial designed to improve the sex drives of female cancer survivors.
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A new study conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden suggest that the male sex hormone testosterone has both a physiological and a psychological impact on female sexuality.
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Procter & Gamble's skin patch to boost sex drive in women may pose serious long-term risks and should not be approved without further study, critics told a U.S. advisory panel on Thursday.
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This just in, from a global study on sexual well-being released last month: More than half of Americans are unhappy with their sex lives.
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Many women, both surgically and naturally menopausal, probably were disappointed last week when a Food and Drug Administration advisory group recommended holding off approving a new libido patch to rev up womenâs low sex desire.
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More research is needed over the safety of hormone replacement therapy, says an expert.
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Staff members of the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a report raising several questions about an experimental drug from Procter &amp; Gamble (PG:NYSE - news - research) designed to improve sexual desire in women whose ovaries have been