Sciencebase Science Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A wide range of stories again in this week’s Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com Absolute configurations reveal themselves through NMR spectroscopy using residual dipolar couplings in small molecules, according to an international team who have put it to work on an anticancer compound. Discussed also in more detail on SpectroscopyNOW.com A failed antidepressant could be marketed as a [...] Absolute...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Attention shoppers, and ladies that means you: now that marriage, mortgage and maternity are the new must-have items in today’s post-credit-crunch-pre-Torygeddon social control bonanza, there’s a new lifestyle drug on the market. It won’t help you dance all night, shunt you through a red-eyed work deadline or – heaven forbid – encourage you to go to bed with random strangers;...
Schwitzer health news blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
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...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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...
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",...
New Scientist - Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A drug dubbed 'female Viagra' that boosts women's libido may have come a step closer, but is it really necessary?
Booster Shots (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
An experimental non-hormonal drug helped women increase their sexual desire and satisfaction and reduced the distress associated with lack of desire, researchers reported today. The clinical trial in 1,378 premenopausal women will provide the drug's manufacturer, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals of Germany,...
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
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) | 13/11/2009
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) | 10/11/2009
'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) | 08/11/2009
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) | 07/11/2009
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,"...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The lie in the promise of a female Viagra, that a pill can make someone want sex, is the same lie for male Viagra. It doesn't make sex better or make men want to have sex more.
About Sexuality (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
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...
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