Drug Companies after Female Viagra

Jean Toth's experience with Intrinsa -- Procter & Gamble's first-in-its-class testosterone skin patch -- has changed her life. She lost her sexual desire after going through menopause.

"The very first time they showed me how to put it on -- I put it on in their offices -- and on my way home, it was like, 'Yes! We are gonna have fun tonight!' " said Toth, a 56-year-old tax analyst from Cleveland.

Toth was taking the drug as part of Procter & Gamble's clinical trials. The company had hoped to win preliminary approval today for widespread sales from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee. But the group said that more study is needed to ensure it is safe for long-term use.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that 43 percent of women, like Toth, suffer from what is now called female sexual dysfunction -- including women who have lost sexual desire after menopause.

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Bremelanotide for Female sexual dysfunction

Bremelanotide drug for female is evolved after a long research and speculation. There are different drugs to treat male sexual disorders but there are no successful drugs for combating female sexual dysfunction. Many drugs are being manufactured for women sexual problems but failed to overcome the stress and tension, long working hours, tiredness, emotional problems and family burden, which affects women’s sexual urge and interest because it is link to the brain. Female sexual excitement wholly depends on female brains and its function.

It was a great challenge for medicine and drugs’ manufacturer to bring a drug, which can effectively work in females’ brains and initiate sexual stimulation. Bremalenotide, PT-141 drug for female sexual dysfunction is successfully evolved after long research and speculation. It is manufactured by employing Platin technology. Platin Technology is the application of American drugs and pharmaceutical company who took real challenge to bring out the wonderful drug, Bremalanotide, PTI-141. Some other new drugs for 2007 are januvia, adipex, , byetta, slimona and avodart.



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Anti-depressant aphprdisiac for women

TRIALS have begun on a sex drug that works directly on the pleasure zones of a woman�s brain to restore flagging libido.

If successful, flibanserin � developed by the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim � could become the �female Viagra�.

Its effect was discovered by accident when it was being tested as an anti-depressant. Participants in the trials reported that their depression was no better but that they had experienced a boost in sexual desire.

The company is conducting four trials on 5,000 women in 220 locations and hopes for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration in 2009.

The company is not yet sure exactly how flibanserin works, but Dr Charles de Wet, Boehringer Ingelheim�s medical director for the UK, said: �As many as two out of every 10 women describe some degree of decreased sexual desire. Female sexual dysfunction is not just related to blood flow, but also affected by stimulation of certain brain areas dealing with sexual stimuli.�


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Libigel

The drug--a form of testosterone called LibiGel that's rubbed into the upper arm--is at least two years away from pharmacy shelves. But Lincolnshire-based BioSante Pharmaceuticals helped sponsor a meeting of sex experts last week, seeking to convince them the company's on the right track.

Some are betting that a pill similar to an antidepressant could get there first. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals presented data at the same meeting showing that its drug, flibanserin, was significantly better than a sugar pill at improving the sex lives of women distressed over a loss of libido.

Lack of desire is typically women's most common sexual complaint, and drug companies have been racing to offer a medical solution. The issue was a central topic at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health, which ended Sunday.





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Testosterone for Women's Libido

A testosterone gel, Paulsen says, could restore libido and reestablish the pre-menopausal balance between testosterone and estradiol. It could be especially beneficial to women who have had their ovaries surgically removed and lose even the small amounts of testosterone that ovaries produce after menopause. This population "is particularly susceptible to symptoms attributable to the loss of hormone production, such as hot flashes and loss of libido," he says.

Currently, the only option postmenopausal women have for boosting testosterone is off-label use of products developed for men, says Sheryl Kingsberg, chief of Behavioral Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. "We know that it works -- not for everybody -- but it works," she says. "And we know that about 20% of all prescriptions for testosterone are for women."

Aphrodisiac Testosterone Libigel

The promotion of testosterone as a female aphrodisiac was delayed for 50 years because the social conservatism of American physicians and of the society as a whole during the 1940s and 1950s could not accommodate public encouragement of sexual fulfillment as a therapeutic goal for all adults. It is seldom noted that the work of the pioneering sexologists of the first half of the twentieth century, including that of the controversial Alfred Kinsey, was intended to save marriages that were imperiled by sexual frustration. The most ardent testosterone therapist of the early 1940s, a University of Georgia gynecologist named Robert B. Greenblatt, implanted testosterone propionate pellets into women for precisely this purpose. As he described this strategy in 1943: "Many married women volunteered the information that their loss of sexual desire led to marital discord. Following pellet implantation there was a return of coital pleasure which often terminated in orgasm. A reawakened interest on the part of the husband usually followed and husband and wife once more fell in love." (11)

LibiGel drug a female viagra

LibiGel drug a female viagra by BioSante to cure hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
University of Virginia is testing a new drug called LibiGel that can boost the libido of women who have lost interest in sex. This will greatly benefit women who are diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire disorder, a medical condition which is believed to affect one third of american women.
In the coming months, BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc proposed to offer the LibiGel drug to women as a miracle cure.
In their phase 2 of testing the LibiGel safety and efficiency, women who have had Ovariectomies, or surgical menopause were tested and 283 percent increase of satisfying sexual encounters for the women taking the LibiGel drug.
LibiGel is packaged in a pump bottle. The woman can rub a small dot of this gel into the skin of her upper arm.
In the next 24 hours, the gel's testosterone is absorbed by her bloodstream, boosting her energy and libido.
Here is a miracle cure for women in the form of LibiGel - a female viagra by BioSante