Libido Drug for Women Raises Hopes, Concerns
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Dec. 1, 2004 -- Attraction. Desire. Sex. Orgasm. All words you are more likely to hear steaming up the back lot of a Hollywood studio than stirring the corridors of the staid Food and Drug Administration.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a fast track review of testosterone patches for women with low sex drive, despite concerns about insufficient data and potentially misleading marketing by their manufacturer Proctor &amp; Gamble, claim two
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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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-- A hormone patch that works to restore a woman&#39;s sex drive should not win government approval until more studies are completed to determine the drug&#39;s risks, federal health advisers recommended Thursday.
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The type of progestin used in hormone therapy for menopausal women could affect heart attack severity, says a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center study on monkeys.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don't use a condom.
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Viagra, which treats a common but decidedly nonfatal male malady, might soon have a new role treating a rare but life-threatening disease that strikes mainly women.
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A hormone patch that works to restore a woman&#39;s sex drive should not be approved until additional studies to determine its risk, federal health advisers said today.
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A federal advisory panel voted unanimously yesterday that the first drug to enhance the sex drive of women should not be approved because of a lack of information about its long-term safety.
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Men have Viagra and other pills to fight sexual impotence. Now women might soon have something roughly equivalent. Procter &amp; Gamble will try today to persuade a federal advisory panel to
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A drug designed to treat premature   ejaculation works well and is safe, researchers said on Friday.
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A drug that could do for women what Viagra has done for men is being tested at the University of Virginia. The drug is a testosterone-laden ointment called LibiGel and it's intended to boost the libido of women who have lost interest in sex. It will be prescribed at UVa in coming months to women who are suffering from hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
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(CBS) Food and Drug Administration advisers are scheduled on Thursday to review Procter and Gamble&#39;s Intrinsa, which could be the first prescription medication to win approval for female sexual dysfunction.
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Impotence drugs such as Viagra may do more than help men physically have sex -- they may also boost levels of a hormone linked with feelings of love, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
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A contraceptive drug that avoids the side effects of hormonal birth control is on the horizon, say scientists.
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A single pill appears to hold promise in curbing the urges to both smoke and drink, according to researchers trying to help people overcome addiction by targeting a pleasure center in the brain.
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Vivus Inc., a maker of drugs and medical devices to treat impotence, said Wednesday that its testosterone spray improved sexual desire in women with low libido in a clinical trial.