Viagra

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first medication designed to treat lack of sexual desire in premenopausal women, although some experts say it may be helpful for older women as well.

The first drug designed to boost a woman’s sex drive was given the green light Thursday by a government advisory panel, which recommended that the pill be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but only with certain safety restrictions.

Están en todas partes. En enormes carteles y vallas publicitarias urbanas, en periódicos y revistas, en la televisión y hasta en nuestro buzón de correo electrónico. Pretenden sacar provecho del sufrimiento o de las inseguridades de los hombres. Abordan un tema muy sensitivo, que afecta también por asociación a las mujeres, y ofrecen milagrosas soluciones.

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For older men who suspect their flagging energy and sex drive might be due to low testosterone, or "low T," as commercials and advertisements call it, getting a prescription for testosterone gel seems to be an easy way to put the spring back in their step.

Cuando se estrenó hace 15 años la pastilla azul, mejor conocida como Viagra, se la percibió como un verdadero "milagro" de la medicina que cambiarí­a las vidas de millones de hombres con impotencia sexual. Y las ha cambiado.

Millions of boomer men have recharged their sex lives thanks to Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs, but are their wives equally thrilled?