Schwitzer health news blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A Bloomberg story reminds us that 6 years ago journalist Ray Moynihan in the British Medical Journal called female sexual dysfunction (FSD) "the freshest, clearest example we have" of a disease created by pharmaceutical companies to make healthy people think...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Flibanserin's makers promise help for 'hypoactive sexual desire disorder'. It suits drug companies to medicalise in this way Before everyone jumps on the hype bandwagon by calling flibanserin a drug recently announced as a solution to female sexual dysfunction "the female Viagra" … oops, it's too late. Last week, flibanserin was hyped as such across the media, the Guardian included...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Ian Hooton / Corbis From Time Magazine: There was a time when Wendy and her husband had sex three times a week. But for the past six years, the purple negligee that Wendy used to entice her husband has been stuffed in the back of a drawer. And now, instead of getting hot and bothered by her husband's advances, Wendy is simply bothered. "All of a sudden I didn't have any desire. There's just nothing...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing products for female sexual health, including LibiGel® for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), applauds the efforts of Boehringer Ingelheim to develop a therapy to treat this unmet medical need.
TIME (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Drug companies have long sought to develop the "female Viagra," but it's hard to find a cure when you don't know exactly what you're treating.
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Limp reception for female 'libido drug' - health - 17 November 2009 - New Scientist It's not hormone based, but rather affects seratonin levels in the brain like an anti-depressant. And unlike viagra it must be taken once a day, every day, for it have any effect. A drug that boosts women's libido may have come a step closer after apparently successful trials. Inevitably dubbed a "female Viagra",...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing products for female sexual health, including LibiGel® for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), applauds the efforts of Boehringer Ingelheim to develop a therapy to treat this unmet medical need. Boehringer today, at the European Society for Sexual...
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
That’s what Boehringer Ingelheim hopes to convince countless women. The German drugmaker is developing a pill designed to reawaken desire by blunting female inhibitions and unlike Pfizer’s Viagra, which boosts blood flow to the penis, this drug works on the brain, Bloomberg News writes. You can imagine the debate - is female sexual dysfunction caused [...]
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Terry J Allen In These Times (October 27 2009) It's not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner's), that you don't orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a seventeen-year-old boy. You have a disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction, and the pharmaceutical industry wants to help. You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
'Restless Vagina Syndrome':Big Pharma's newest fake diseaseBy Terry J. Allen / November 9, 2009It’s not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner’s), that you don’t orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a 17-year-old boy. You have a disease: female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the pharmaceutical industry wants to help.You are among the "43...
Care For Women (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Most women, fearing that the age and decreased levels of hormones, so their use, and often the desire for sex. Fortunately, while diminishing hormones and sex has become one breath, the latest research suggests that sexual desire has less to do with these changes than other lifestyle and sexual health factors for women, at least some of which are under the direct control of women. According to reports...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
It’s not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner’s), that you don’t orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a 17-year-old boy. You have a disease: female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the pharmaceutical industry wants to help. You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree of impaired sexual function,"...
aarkstore | 10/29/2009
Female Sexual Dysfunction Therapy Area Pipeline Report contains detailed information on the female sexual dysfunction drug pipeline. This report provides insight into the pipeline status of female sexual dysfunction drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area. Scope of the report: Therapy Area Pipeline Report provides the user with real detail
About Sexuality (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Terry Allen has a short but pointed rant in In These Times on what she calls "restless vagina syndrome" otherwise known as female sexual dysfunction, and it's supposed cure, which thanks to an uncritical media has been constructed as the hunt for a female Viagra . There's so much to be depressed about the tenor of most public conversations about what constitutes female sexual dysfunction...
In These Times (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
It's not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner's), that you don't orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a 17-year-old boy. You have a disease: female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the pharmaceutical industry wants to help. You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree of impaired sexual function," according to a...
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aarkstore | 10/29/2009
Female Sexual Dysfunction Therapy Area Pipeline Report contains detailed information on the female sexual dysfunction drug pipeline. This report provides insight into the pipeline status of female sexual dysfunction drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area. Scope of the report: Therapy Area Pipeline Report provides the user with real detail...
aarkstore | 09/23/2009
Female Sexual Dysfunction Therapy Area Pipeline Report contains detailed information on the female sexual dysfunction drug pipeline. This report provides insight into the pipeline status of female sexual dysfunction drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area. Scope of the report: Therapy Area Pipeline Report provides the user with real detail...
keure | 02/27/2009
A woman’s sexuality is a very important thing. When that sexuality starts to wane, it can be devastating. If you are experiencing these problems you are likely going through many different emotions and even feeling li...
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