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mises
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 Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject: Female sexual dysfunction 'was invented by drugs industry' |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/female-sexual-dysfunction-was-invented-by-drugs-industry-2094578.html
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Female sexual dysfunction � which is claimed to affect up to two thirds of women � is a disorder invented by the pharmaceutical industry to build global markets for drugs to treat it, it is claimed today.
Drug companies have invested millions in the search for a female equivalent of Viagra, so far without success. But while doing so they have stoked demand by creating a buzz around the disorder they have created, according to Ray Moynihan, a lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
Corporate employees worked with medical opinion leaders, ran surveys aimed at portraying the problem as widespread and helped create the diagnostic instruments to persuade women that their sexual difficulties deserved a medical label. But sex problems in women are far more complex than they are in men, encompassing lack of desire, lack of arousal and lack of orgasm and the drug industry's narrow focus is failing them.
Mr Moynihan, who first investigated the drug industry's role in female sexual dysfunction a decade ago, says it illustrates a wider problem about the creation of new diseases, and the widening of existing boundaries for treatment with designations such as pre-diabetes, pre-hypertension and pre-osteoporosis, for which the latest treatments are aggressively promoted.
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In 2005, Pfizer, makers of Viagra, funded a survey which showed 63 per cent of women had sexual dysfunction and that testosterone and Viagra might be helpful. In 2006, Procter and Gamble, makers of a testosterone patch for women, sponsored a survey showing one in 10 postmenopausal women had hypoactive [low] sexual desire disorder (the company sold its drug business in 2009). In 2008, Boehringer Ingelheim, makers of flibanserin which is claimed to boost the female libido, sponsored a survey which also showed one in 10 women was in need of help.
Efforts by the companies to meet the need have subsequently foundered. Pfizer pulled Viagra from the market for women after trials showed it had no greater effect than placebo. Procter and Gamble's testosterone patch was rejected in 2004 in the US, over fears it raised the risk of cancer and heart disease and Beohringer Ingelheim's drug, flibanserin, was rejected by the US Food and Drug Administration in June on the grounds it had failed to deliver the agreed benefits while carrying the risk of serious side effects.
Mr Moynihan warns that although the drugs have so far failed, more are in the pipeline and claims that "the drug industry shows no signs of abandoning plans to meet the unmet need it has helped to manufacture". A spokesman for Pfizer said: "We currently have no plans to develop medicines for FSD."
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Inventing dysfunctions for profit. Make the population feel inadequate and then sell them the cure. Pretty screwed up.
Related to this, I've read that ADHD is out and autism is in. Boys in school who can't sit still were called ADHD for a decade and are now being called autistic. Phrama reps are pushing this on school districts and doctors. How vile. |
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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why does Wallstreet, BIg pharma and Big Tobacco get away with these Illegal practices. this is crazy.
they get away with murder. and politicians do nothing. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Koreadays wrote: |
why does Wallstreet, BIg pharma and Big Tobacco get away with these Illegal practices. this is crazy.
they get away with murder. and politicians do nothing. |
Politicians do nothing because people incentivize them to do nothing. In fact, in many areas of the country a politician who actually tried to do something about these issues would be punished by being removed from office. This is more true of some industries than others; an industry like Tobacco where the product's harmful nature is so easily observable that even laypeople can't help but notice it over time is far easier to take serious action against than, say, Wall Street. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. Moynihan, if he were honest, would admit that he's a little excited about the prospects should pharma pull it off. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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I don't understand the issue. Aphrodisiacs for both men and women have existed for thousands of years, and the article admits women do suffer from sex problems. The pharmaceutical industry has decided to approach the issue with medicine; so what?
Of the three drugs mentioned in the article, not a single one is currently on the US market. One was pulled after it was found to be ineffective, and the other two were never allowed in the first place for being too dangerous. |
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