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Failed anti-depressant drug could be 'women's Viagra'
http://www.breitbart.com ^ | 11/17/09 | breitbart

Posted on 11/17/2009 11:49:22 AM PST by waiyu

A drug that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said Tuesday.

Women who took the drug flibanserin when it was being tested as an anti-depressant said it didn't help them beat the glums, but did give them "an increase in libido that they liked," John Thorp, one of the investigators analyzing data from three clinical trials of the drug, told AFP.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: antidepressant; flibanserin; napl; womensviagra
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To: taxcontrol
Does this strike anyone else as .... lets put out a drug, see what it does and then market it accordingly? Seems a tad scary to me that you shoot at one target, miss and then move the bullseye.

Happens all the time. Too much R&D money spent to waste if we simply give up on one application.

If you want to take it to extremes, take a look at aspirin sales today compared to 20 years ago. Once the cardiac benefits were known, aspirin took on a new life.

21 posted on 11/17/2009 12:02:13 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: waiyu

Except that Viagra does not increase libido. If it did, well....I won’t go there.


22 posted on 11/17/2009 12:03:18 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: Albion Wilde
Why is this topic on FR?

Why not? This drug has the potential to be a billion dollar blockbuster.

23 posted on 11/17/2009 12:03:22 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: waiyu
"could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra"

It gives them a headache?

24 posted on 11/17/2009 12:03:50 PM PST by sinatorhellary
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To: Albion Wilde
"Why is this topic on FR?"

For the same reason baseball, football, cooking, ghost, UFO's and health issues are. FReepers have other interest beyond politics. If you don't like it or aren't interested don't read the thread.

25 posted on 11/17/2009 12:04:08 PM PST by Artemis Webb
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To: AppyPappy
I wonder how it works on post-menopausal women.
From personal experience, if a woman is less then 2-5 years in menopause a good romance will reactivate her libido and menstruation. I had that happen to two women that I dated. One of which I married.
26 posted on 11/17/2009 12:06:01 PM PST by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: waiyu

Sounds like this drug could do wonders for this old guy’s depression . . . :)


27 posted on 11/17/2009 12:08:45 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Odd. Most antidepressants have the opposite effect. They list loss of sexual interest as a side effect.
I know that WAS true with Paxil and Prozac but the newer ones actually seem to be either neutral or even libido enhancing. Celexa (which I take) works wonders. I'm calm and horny as hell and can keep it up for as long as it takes. (I know that may be to much information for some of you but for those with antidepressant usage = This posting is meant for you.!)
28 posted on 11/17/2009 12:10:44 PM PST by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: jongaltsr

Are you John Holmes?


29 posted on 11/17/2009 12:13:23 PM PST by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: waiyu

Great. Just what we need - depressed horny women.


30 posted on 11/17/2009 12:16:05 PM PST by Mercat (Reluctant glenbeckian)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Odd. Most antidepressants have the opposite effect. They list loss of sexual interest as a side effect.

Not all of them. Paxil had an "interesting" effect on my wife, but caused her to gain weight so she switched to something else.

31 posted on 11/17/2009 12:18:38 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Albion Wilde
Why is this topic on FR?

WHY THE F--K NOT????

Just kidding around...

32 posted on 11/17/2009 12:20:22 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Artemis Webb

“If you don’t like it or aren’t interested don’t read the thread.”

Are you kidding? It’s more fun for the Posting Police to go on a thread that doesn’t interest them and bitch about it. It’s what they live for.


33 posted on 11/17/2009 12:23:30 PM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: waiyu

Am I the only one bothered by using drugs for other puposes just because they noticed they seemed to work?

What does that say about their understanding of the mechanism by which the drug works?


34 posted on 11/17/2009 12:23:59 PM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: gimme1ibertee

Something Italian-sounding?

Muffangiusi


35 posted on 11/17/2009 12:28:34 PM PST by PAMadMax (Islam is a disease....)
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To: Pessimist
Well often times you do know the molecular target of the drug, but are unsure of the exact effects once the molecular target gets hit.

Biology is much more complex than “if A then B which derives C”. More like “A hits B that causes effects C,D,E,F,G and H. C and D are what we wanted, but it didn't do ENOUGH of it. E was unexpected, but everyone liked it, did we discover a drug for E? F G and H are side effects that nobody likes, can we reduce them?”

The mechanism for all this is most likely known, in that drug A hits bio-molecule B, and activated B does a lot of things, SOME of which we want, some of which we do not want, and other things we sometimes didn't expect.

Biology doesn’t have the easy answers.

36 posted on 11/17/2009 12:31:27 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Ditto that.


37 posted on 11/17/2009 12:32:06 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Puh-leeze. They can't keep their legs together as it is.

And Men are such bastions of chastity, Mr. 'Invisible Hand'. (Why don't you keep your hands where we can see them.)

38 posted on 11/17/2009 12:47:48 PM PST by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: Mercat
Great. Just what we need - depressed horny women.

Better than just plain-ol' depressed women.

39 posted on 11/17/2009 12:49:43 PM PST by tsomer
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To: Mercat

“Just what we need - depressed horny women.”

Go to a wine store on Friday later afternoon. I went into one to pick up a bottle for Friday night and barely came out alive, the cougars were so on the prowl.


40 posted on 11/17/2009 12:53:19 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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