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...best way to avoid the hip and spine fractures that are the leading cause of health problems in the elderly. Current drugs for osteoporosis work by blocking the effect of bone-destroying cells, which increase in number as people age. But a new compound under review by the FDA tackles the problem in a different way ? by curbing the formation of the bone-gnawing cells. That tilts the balance in favor of bone-building. In two studies published in August, the experimental compound denosumab was shown to reduce the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women as well as men being...
...What's a fish pedicure? I didn't have one. I just saw that there was a store near me. It didn't actually ever open up, so maybe the FDA or the food and game commission got to them. Apparently you plunge your feet into water and certain kinds of fish - I think they were called surgeon fish, which sounds disgusting enough - come and eat your disgusting calluses off. Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden...
...have had their ovaries surgically removed, which leads to a drop in sex hormones - namely testosterone. Many American women already use testosterone treatments off-label to treat their low libidos, and doctors attest that they work. But past efforts by drugmakers to get such treatments approved by the FDA specifically for HSDD have been blocked for safety concerns. Intrinsa, a testosterone patch manufactured by Procter & Gamble, is used to treat female sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women in Europe, but after being tested in women in the U.S., the FDA rejected P&G's fast-track request for approval...
...remains to be seen whether 0.8 more bouts of satisfying sex is enough to win FDA approval. In the meantime, however, Boehringer Ingelheim insists that the results shore up evidence for the neurobiological basis for HSDD, such as in women like Wendy, who says, "I am not depressed. I love my husband. Most of the time we get along great. But after our second child was born, I just lost interest...
That, of course, is not a side effect that was measured in any of the drug trials involving female sexual dysfunction - including those on flibanserin - and not one that will be weighed by the FDA...