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Hormone Might Ease Menopause, Boost Women's Sex Life: Study
Posted 20 Dec 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Dec. 20 – A hormone called DHEA appears to help ease women's menopausal symptoms and also improve their sex life, a small, new study says. This is the first evidence that low doses of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, can help sexual function as well as menopausal symptoms, according to the researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy. The study included 48 postmenopausal women who'd experienced troubling symptoms for a year. They were divided into four groups: 12 took vitamin D and calcium to prevent osteoporosis; 12 took a low dose of DHEA; 12 were given standard hormone replacement therapy (HRT) of estrogen plus progesterone; and 12 took tibolone, a synthetic steroid. The women's menopausal symptoms and levels of sexual interest and activity were monitored for a year. At the end of that time, all the women receiving the hormone ... Read more
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Journal: Female Sexual Dysfunction 'Excuse By Drug Firms To Sell Pills':
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by Drugs.com
Female Sexual Dysfunction 'Excuse By Drug Firms To Sell Pills': Companies Accused Of Creating Market For Drugs Loss Of Libido 'Turned Into A Medical Condition' From Guardian (UK) (October 1, 2010) Drug companies are today accused of attempting to turn the loss of sexual desire that some women experience into a medical condition that can be treated by pills. Although drugs, from antidepressants to variants of Viagra, have been found ineffective, the companies are charged in an article in the British Medical Journal with inappropriately trying to create a market for pills to treat a condition that is as much psychosocial as biological, and which may need the intervention of a relationship counsellor as much as a doctor. Ray Moynihan, a journalist and lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Australia, argues in the BMJ that a variety of drug companies have tried to construct a ... Read more
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Placebo Pill Gives Boost to Some Women's Sex Drive
Posted 16 Sep 2010 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Sept. 16 – About one-third of women given a placebo pill to treat a low libido reported improvements in their sex lives, a finding researchers say is evidence of the powerful and somewhat mysterious mind-body connection surrounding arousal and desire. After drugs like Viagra and Cialis revolutionized the treatment of male sexual dysfunction in the late 1990s, a flurry of clinical trials were conducted in women in the hopes that the drugs could do the same to revive a woman's flagging sex drive. The drugs flopped in women. But recently, researchers went back and looked at the old data on Cialis and found that not only did about 35 percent of women given the placebo pill experience significant improvement in psychological aspects of sex such as desire, many reported improvements in the physical aspects of arousal, including better lubrication, more frequent orgasms or more ... Read more
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FDA Panel Weighs OK of 'Female Viagra'
Posted 19 Jun 2010 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, June 18 – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday was considering whether to approve a drug dubbed the "female Viagra" for premenopausal women with a diminished sex drive. Called flibanserin, the drug is related to the antidepressant family and affects serotonin and other chemicals in the brain. Drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim has been seeking FDA approval of the drug. While the agency isn't compelled to follow the recommendations of its advisory panels, it typically does so. Earlier this week, the FDA released a review of two studies that found the drug didn't have much impact on a woman's libido but did seem to slightly boost sexual satisfaction, according to published reports. Side effects seen with use of the drug included depression, fainting and dizziness, the FDA said. The drug, with the proposed brand name Girosa, is designed to be taken in ... Read more
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Study Touts Success With 'Female Viagra' Drug
Posted 1 Dec 2009 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Nov. 16 – New industry-funded research suggests that the antidepressant flibanserin, which has been touted as a female version of Viagra, can enhance libido in women with low sex drives. The research compiles the results of several trials, the first to test a treatment for low libido in women that works on the brain, lead investigator Dr. John M. Thorp Jr., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, said in a university news release. "Flibanserin was a poor antidepressant," Thorp said. "However, astute observers noted that it increased libido in laboratory animals and human subjects. So, we conducted multiple clinical trials, and the women in our studies who took it for hypoactive sexual desire disorder reported significant improvements in sexual desire and satisfactory sexual experiences." Research suggests ... Read more
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