FDA schedules meeting on twice-rejected female libido drug

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By MATTHEW PERRONE

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration will ask a group of outside medical experts next month to evaluate a much-debated experimental drug designed to boost sexual desire in women.

The meeting is the latest twist in the ongoing saga of flibanserin, a proposed female libido pill which the FDA has already twice declined to approve. But the drug's backer, Sprout Pharmaceuticals, has enlisted women's groups and other advocates to lobby the agency to approve the pill, saying women's sexual problems have been too long overlooked by the federal government.

The FDA said Thursday in a posting it will convene a meeting of its reproductive drugs and drug safety panels on June 4. The agency is not required to follow the advice of such panels, though it often does.

For decades, drugmakers have tried unsuccessfully to develop a female equivalent to Viagra, the blockbuster drug that treats men's erectile dysfunction. But disorders of women's sexual desire have proven resistant to drugs that act on blood flow, hormones and other simple biological functions.

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[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Testosterone works.

But they are terrified of it. Also, since Congress has investigated professional jocks taking huge amounts of steroids, they are terrified of it. Nobody talks about dosage. There are reasonable therapeutic dosages and there are the huge amounts that professional athletes and body builders take. They are afraid of assertive, sexually active, hairy women taking testosterone.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Reinventing....

Quaaludes?

[Ed Suspicious]

3. Spanish fly?