The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
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...
My agnostic views & images I like (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
No need to explain what’s going on in this clip from MSNBC’s news site: FeaturePics stock Do you crave chocolate? It’s basically an antidepressant in dessert form, says Alan R. Hirsch, M.D., head of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago and the author of “What Flavor Is Your Personality'” Heated debate over chocolate milk [...]
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the unveiling of a portrait of Mrs Thatcher. Gordon Brown has banned television cameras from the unveiling of a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street amid suspicions he is terrified of unflattering comparisons of their records. Baroness Thatcher will effectively stage her own No 10 reunion when the painting by distinguished Royal artist Richard Stone is displayed in public for the first...
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Let me start by saying that it's well-known that withdrawal from anti-depressants (and other psych meds) can make some people act anywhere from oddly to violently, even in cases where people have carefully withdrawn from said meds. Fortunately, the instances...
My Green Meadows (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
clipped from www.independent.co.uk One of the world’s oldest controversies – over the nature of female sexual desire – is set to be reopened today by the discovery of a drug described as “Viagra for women”. Doctors testing a new anti-depressant found it was useless as a mood brightener – but was unexpectedly [...]
today's lessons (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
How do you explain to a child, that seeing is not always believing? That the stars still exist in the daytime, even when the sun is out, but that there are no monsters under her bed or in her closet or outside her window watching her lay scared into sleeplessness? How do you explain it to a child, that God loves us, protects us, provides for us, through the reality of nightmares, the cruelty of friendship,...
Sify (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A drug that failed to pull women out of depression could work as their alternative to Viagra, experts believe.
A little about .... (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Sydney, November 18 - ANI: A drug that failed to pull women out of depression could work as their alternative to Viagra, experts believe.
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
So yesterday results of a study of a drug called Flibanserin (its generic name) were rolled out at a conference in France. Flibanserin was designed as an anti-depressant, but failed its trials except in one key sense: female patients were...
Ivanhoe Broadcast News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A drug originally developed as an anti-depressant may work better as a female sexual boost.
Dear Miriam - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It was bound to happen. Finally a new pill on the horizon has been hailed as the answer to so-called low libido in women. The pill, which won't be available until 2011, was originally designed as an antidepressant but...
IOL (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A drug that failed as an anti-depressant could one day become the female answer to Viagra, according to researchers.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Scientists developing an anti-depressant drug claim they have discovered it has a very marketable side effect - it increases a woman's libido. More 4 News reports.
DrudgeSiren.com - All Stories (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Failed anti-depressant drug could be 'women's Viagra'...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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",...
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ifp | 02/06/2009
The people of Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur (PACA) are being consulted on a name change for the region. Tired of being responsible for an acronym, the President of PACA Michel Vauzelle has decided it is time to change the name of the region, and he has sought the views of its inhabitants to help him decide. He has barely made a secret of the fact that his own personal preference is the more economical
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