Word: libido
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...Australia. For one year, 55 men took an experimental birth-control drug. All of them had fertile partners; none of the women got pregnant. David Handelsman, the reproductive-health specialist who oversaw the study, says the men reported no serious side effects other than a slightly elevated libido, which some people pay good money for, after all. "We have developed the first reliable and reversible means of male contraception," Handelsman claims...
There is no pill that does for women what Viagra does for men--yet. Some doctors have experimented with the male hormone testosterone to enhance a woman's libido, but without the benefit of rigorous trials. Now a new study, conducted by Dr. Glenn Braunstein at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A., has taken some of the uncertainty out of testosterone therapy. Nearly 450 women who had lost their ovaries were given either a testosterone patch or a placebo. After six months of treatment, the women on 300 mcg of testosterone a day reported an 81% increase in satisfying sexual...
...ambitious photographer making his way back to the centers of the universe. His parents and brother escaped to Argentina with their lives and not much else. But Newton insists that once he was set loose on the world, he was always having a high time of it, a refugee libido forever being washed ashore into the arms of Mary or Dora or Louise...
...appeared to reduce prostate cancer incidence 25%. But in the seven-year study, involving more than 9,000 men ages 55 and older, the finasteride group also had a slightly higher rate of aggressive, "high grade" tumors, which are harder to treat. Complicating matters, finasteride also caused loss of libido and impotence. Prostate cancer strikes more than 220,000 American men each year, but it's not clear that this is a drug that should be taken to prevent...
...lift one's mood. Today they spend more than $1 billion on Prozac each year, to treat not just depression but also obsessive-compulsive disorder and premenstrual syndrome. The cultural revolution has escalated with the arrival of new antidepressants without Prozac's occasional side effects--nightmares, violence, loss of libido. And in the tradition of imitation as the ultimate form of flattery, by 2001 cheaper generic fluoxetine hit the market. --By Alice Park