NVC in the Press - 2015
| Title: |
FDA approval of flibanserin |
| Date: |
12/11/2015 |
| Description: |
Defense by FDA team of its approval of
flibanserin after 2 rejections. Acknowledges
misleading role of "Even the Score"
campaign but insists it had no influence
over the scientific decision. 4 pages worth
saving. |
| Author: |
Hylton V. Joffe and 10 others |
| Source: |
New England Journal of Medicine |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Sprout CEO Cindy Whitehead leaves company |
| Date: |
12/9/2015 |
| Description: |
Addyi selling badly. Sprout Pharma new
owner Valeant in midst of scandals over
drug pricing. So, Cindy Whitehead takes her
$1B and leaves the
ship. |
| Author: |
David Bracken |
| Source: |
News Observer (North Carolina) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Valeants newest problem: The female libido pill isnt selling |
| Date: |
11/17/2015 |
| Description: |
Sales extremely weak for Addyi in first
month: 227 vs. tens of thousands for
Viagra in same period in 1998. Seems the
info about side effects, lack of efficacy
and daily administration have gotten
through to the public. |
| Author: |
Anna Edney and Laura Colby |
| Source: |
The Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Is the Female Viagra Worth It? |
| Date: |
11/10/2015 |
| Description: |
Thorough and critical piece, emphasizing
how high placebo rates often indicate the
power of nonmedical effects and also
emphasizing responsive versus
spontaneous desire. Goes into the dirty
underbelly of drug pricing and how
Valeant will probably jack up the price
[which it did!]. |
| Author: |
Beth Skwarecki |
| Source: |
Lifehacker.com |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
It'll Take More Than Meds To Boost Women's Sex Drives |
| Date: |
10/20/2015 |
| Description: |
Vienna study on oxytocin produced
unexpected result. Required to
collaborate with partner on feedback,
both drug and placebo subjects improved
equally in sexual satisfaction. Goes to
show how important it is to change the
pharma clinical trials research methods. |
| Author: |
Alex Zielinski |
| Source: |
Think Progress |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
'Female Viagra' Is Here, But Don't Go Running to Your Doctor |
| Date: |
10/19/2015 |
| Description: |
Short critical piece with good links to the
various issues. Good to see in a major
mass outlet. |
| Author: |
Susan Rinkunas |
| Source: |
The Cut (New York Magazine Online) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
A Female Sex Pill is Getting Women's Attention, But This Side Effect Might Not Be So Thrilling |
| Date: |
10/18/2015 |
| Description: |
Ordinary piece with 2 opposing quotes
that are very useful: Susan Wood (former
FDA, Office of Women's Health) says
"neither very effective nor particularly
safe," vs. Lauren Streicher (Northwestern
U gynecologist) says, "this is going to be
a game changer for me because right
now I have women that come into my
office and have these issues and I just
say, 'I'm so sorry. There is nothing that I
can do.'" |
| Author: |
Lawrence Bonk |
| Source: |
Independent Journal Review |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The 'female Viagra' goes on sale today, though fears persist about its dangers |
| Date: |
10/17/2015 |
| Description: |
Overview emphasizing Irwin Goldstein's
links to pharma and Sprout. |
| Author: |
Patrick Kulp |
| Source: |
Mashable |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The first 'female Viagra' is here. Who wants it? |
| Date: |
10/15/2015 |
| Description: |
Lengthy cover story for Wash Post magazine
comes out the weekend Addyi is available,
but the focus is on a woman with post-
ovariectomy loss of desire treated with HRT.
Nothing about history, politics, dilemmas of
Addyi or eventhescore. |
| Author: |
Brigid Schulte |
| Source: |
Washington Post magazine (cover) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Addyi: Not the Women's Sex Pill You've Been Waiting For |
| Date: |
10/14/2015 |
| Description: |
Good overview, and focusing on
"Even the Score" asks, "Did the strategy
corrupt the approval process?" Calls out
its "shady past" and "marginal benefit." |
| Author: |
Sally Chew |
| Source: |
AlterNet |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Stephen Colbert Has a Few Thoughts on the New "Female Viagra" [VIDEO] |
| Date: |
9/19/2015 |
| Description: |
Commentary and video of 4 minutes of
Stephen Colbert satire on flibanserin,
Sprout, Addyi, HSDD, and the insanity of
developing a drug for romance that
prohibits alcohol indefinitely. He definitely
says the emperor is naked - Go, Steve!
It's the latest lecture in the science of
bonerology. |
| Author: |
Sharan Shetty |
| Source: |
Slate |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
What the FDA's approval of "pink Viagra" tells us about the problems with drug regulation |
| Date: |
9/18/2015 |
| Description: |
Reviews changes over the last decades
in FDA standards for approval.
Concludes that 5-year review of PDUFA
(law that requires drug companies pay
the FDA to get into drug approval
process) has created loopholes. 2007
introduced REMS allowing FDA to
approve riskier drugs as long as certain
precautions are used. Approval of
flibanserin not just due to "Even the
Score," but regulation problems. |
| Author: |
Julia Belluz |
| Source: |
Vox |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
On the eve of its release, question remains: is pink Viagra solving a problem that does not exist? [VIDEO] |
| Date: |
9/18/2015 |
| Description: |
Interview (video) with Thea Cacchioni on
"Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of
Love" and Addyi. She predicts poor use
and satisfaction with the drug based on
her research with women having sex in
their real interpersonal context. |
| Author: |
Sharon Kirkey |
| Source: |
National Post (Canada) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Female Libido Pill Caused Dissent in FDA Ranks, Memo Shows |
| Date: |
9/17/2015 |
| Description: |
Disagreements among FDA regulators
shown in lengthy FDA summary report
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatf
da_
docs/nda/2015/022526Orig1s000SumR.
pdf. Contact Bloomberg News for full
access. |
| Author: |
Anna Edney |
| Source: |
Bloomberg News |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Pleasure in a Pill? |
| Date: |
9/16/2015 |
| Description: |
Lengthy magazine article about FSD
featuring patients who love their drugs
but also covers "Even the Score"
campaign, the FDA hearing, and NVC
critical voices. |
| Author: |
Virginia Sole-Smith |
| Source: |
Marie Claire magazine |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The Disordered Logic of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder |
| Date: |
9/8/2015 |
| Description: |
Australian feminist bioethicist Tamara
Browne weighs in whether FSIAD can be
considered a disorder, when there is no
normal level of desire and the condition is
about distress. "Interpersonal or social
persecution" may be at the heart. |
| Author: |
Tamara Kayali Browne |
| Source: |
Impact Ethics blog |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
FDA Approves Addyi, Rejects Gender Discrimination Claims |
| Date: |
9/7/2015 |
| Description: |
Short Pharma press article on FDA's Dr.
Hylton Joffe's memo explaining the Addyi
decision and acknowledging the political
controversy. Useful to cite and link to
FDA summary report. Contact Pharma
Intelligence for full article. |
| Author: |
Michael McCaughan |
| Source: |
Pharma Intelligence |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
'Female Viagra' has Indian men in thrall: Doctors |
| Date: |
9/4/2015 |
| Description: |
Dr. Prokash Kothari, the "Dr. Ruth of
India," has been getting lots of inquiries
about flibanserin from men! Why?
Chennai sexologist says it's because
men are "lazy." Kothari tells case where
wife's low desire is due to husband's
tobacco smell and no foreplay. He says
he has seen "50,000" cases of low desire
in women and flibanserin won't work in
them. Instead they must work on OCD,
depression, anxiety, or organ
trouble. |
| Author: |
Pratiksha Ramkumar |
| Source: |
Times of India |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Does 'female Viagra' pathologize asexuality? |
| Date: |
9/4/2015 |
| Description: |
Links to important pieces on flibanserin and
asexuality. A growing critical voice. |
| Author: |
Brandon Baker |
| Source: |
Philly Voice (local paper) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
With flibanserin approval, a complicated drug takes the spotlight |
| Date: |
9/3/2015 |
| Description: |
Thorough review including critique from
Adriane Fugh-Berman and Ob-Gyn John
Thorp. Also fantasy neuroscience from
ObGyn Judith Volkar. Strong conclusion
says "the hope of further investment
seems a poor reason to approve a drug
with such
minor improvements and major
expectations" |
| Author: |
Bethany Brookshire |
| Source: |
Science News |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Sex, Drugs, and Women's Desire |
| Date: |
9/3/2015 |
| Description: |
Critical analysis focuses on Barbara
Gattuso, Goldstein patient, who gets
aroused but wants "desire." Had
"problem" for 20 years, never told
husband. Goldstein filmed her after B-I
trial ended and took film to Cindy
Whitehead (CEO) to get Sprout Pharma
involved. Other interesting details and an
analysis of responsive desire from Emily
Nagoski of NVC. |
| Author: |
Anna Nowogrodzki |
| Source: |
PBS Nova Next |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Flibanserin (Addyi), the Alleged Libido Pill For Women What Women Need to Know Before Asking for it |
| Date: |
9/3/2015 |
| Description: |
His own perspective. Drug will be expensive,
will destroy serotonin nerves, and will not
reverse drug-caused sexual dysfunction.
Emphasizes interactions and SSRI-induced
dysfunctions. |
| Author: |
Gary Kohls, MD |
| Source: |
Center for Research on Globalization |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The Controversial Doctor Behind the New "Viagra for Women" |
| Date: |
9/2/2015 |
| Description: |
Background on Irwin Goldstein and role
in creating FSD and pushing drugs and
diagnoses since 1998. Links to
journalism and social science. Recalls
pushing "androgen deficiency syndrome"
in 2002 as Intrinsa is on deck. Brought
video of patient to Cindy Whitehead
(Sprout Pharma CEO) in
2010 to persuade her to take on
flibanserin. |
| Author: |
Molly Redden |
| Source: |
Mother Jones |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
We don't need female Viagra, we need feminism |
| Date: |
9/1/2015 |
| Description: |
"That feminism is now an approved
marketing strategy shows us how
powerful and culturally important the
movement is. All the same, this is
nothing to celebrate... feminism must not
be co-opted by companies whose
ultimate agenda is not women’s welfare
but their own bottom line. Feminism is
about putting more power in the hands
of women, not putting more profit in the
pockets of drug and cosmetics
companies. Feminist liberation is not,
ultimately, something you can buy. " |
| Author: |
Laurie Penny |
| Source: |
New Statesman |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Flibanserin and Feminism |
| Date: |
8/31/2015 |
| Description: |
"Flibanserin isn't female Viagra. Lubricant
is female Viagra." "Sprout’s campaign
was profoundly sexist." Flibanserin
approved by misleading PR campaign.
All Sprout is men; There is no normal
level of libido. |
| Author: |
Adriane Fugh-Berman & Alessandra Hirsch |
| Source: |
Impact Ethics (blog) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
How Medscape helped Sprout stack the deck for Addyi |
| Date: |
8/29/2015 |
| Description: |
Reviews Journal of Medical Ethics article
http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2015/
06/28/medethics-2014-102596.short?
rss=1 by Fugh-Berman. "The tactic of
getting doctors to buy into the
medicalization of normal via industry
funded CME is effective." Excellent
presentation with pictures from the
Medscape CME courses. |
| Author: |
Jen Gunter |
| Source: |
Dr. Jen Gunter's blog |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The Female Sex Pill [VIDEO] |
| Date: |
8/28/2015 |
| Description: |
Five minute segment on flibanserin that
is comical and trenchant. Pillify the drug
to take to make you want to take a drug
you need to take to do something you
don't want to do. Further, Maher argues
that if Caitlyn Jenner can be the kind of
sexual person she wants to be, why can't
women with low desire be the kind of
sexual person they are, too, without
stigma and interference! |
| Author: |
Bill Maher |
| Source: |
Real Time with Bill Maher |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Broad Questions [AUDIO] |
| Date: |
8/28/2015 |
| Description: |
Second half hour of this show devoted to
THOROUGH examination of flibanserin
story. Lori Brotto, Susan Wood, and Thea
Cacchioni speak important truths about
"Even the Score" to counter
misinformation and official rhetoric from
Sprout et al. as presented by Sally
Greenberg and Sheryl
Kinsgberg. |
| Author: |
Brooke Gladstone, host |
| Source: |
WNYC "On The Media" Radio Program |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Opinion: A new sex drug for women - Don't be seduced by the hype |
| Date: |
8/27/2015 |
| Description: |
Montreal doctor says, "And so we have a
drug that doesnt really work, with serious
side effects, to treat a condition that doesnt
really exist, that was approved not because
of science, but because of a media
campaign." Great quote. |
| Author: |
Christopher Labos |
| Source: |
Montreal Gazette opinion |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Addyi Alcohol Safety Was Tested Mostly on Men |
| Date: |
8/25/2015 |
| Description: |
First close examination of feeble alcohol
challenge study on flibanserin Sprout
gave to the FDA. Now Addyi has a black
box warning, but we still lack the
accurate information about
alochol-drug interactions. This could be
the Achilles' heel. |
| Author: |
Melissa Dahl |
| Source: |
New York Magazine: Science of Us |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
What Do the Data Show About Addyi? [Video] |
| Date: |
8/25/2015 |
| Description: |
7-minute video analysis of the data. Very
even-handed. Concludes harms not
worth benefits. |
| Author: |
Perry Wilson, MD |
| Source: |
MedPage Today (GYN) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Flibanserin, 'female Viagra,' distracts from real causes of low libido: critics |
| Date: |
8/24/2015 |
| Description: |
Cynthia Graham and Leonore Tiefer offer
long ideas about sexual desire and why a
pill won't work. Unrealistic expectations,
looking for excuses in biology, changes in
DSM nomenclature. |
| Author: |
Kazi Stastna |
| Source: |
CBC News |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
OK for female sex drug follows patient-centered trend |
| Date: |
8/23/2015 |
| Description: |
Shows how recent trends favor patient
involvement in drug approval. REMS
approved in 2007. Gives other examples
of grassroots groups, e.g. "Be
Reasonable" campaign for muscular
dystrophy. Peter Pitts, former FDA
official, lists problems with "ginning up
anger." |
| Author: |
Robert King |
| Source: |
Washington Examiner |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The new female libido drug may not be the feminist victory that it seems |
| Date: |
8/20/2015 |
| Description: |
Short piece emphasizing benefits are
small, nothing like Viagra, the price may
be high, can't use with alcohol. First
piece to mention
price! |
| Author: |
Carolyn Y. Johnson |
| Source: |
Washington Post (Wonkblog) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The Misinformation Behind Female Viagra with Dr. Leonore Tiefer [VIDEO] |
| Date: |
8/20/2015 |
| Description: |
Nine minute television interview with
Leonore Tiefer. Excellent opportunity to
critique diagnoses, "Even the Score,"
drug safety and effectiveness. |
| Source: |
Watching the Hawks TV News program |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Valeant to buy female libido drugmaker Sprout for $1 billion [VIDEO] |
| Date: |
8/20/2015 |
| Description: |
Five minute TV interview with Valeant
CEO and Sprout CEO Whitehead about
plans for Addyi profit, marketing,
advertising, pricing. Valeant expecting
"billions." |
| Author: |
Christine Seib and Tom DiChristopher |
| Source: |
CNBC |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
From 1952-2015: The path to 'Female Viagra' has been a rocky one - but the 'Female Viagra' could get FDA approval this week |
| Date: |
8/18/2015 |
| Description: |
Chronology of medical and
pharmaceutical efforts from DSM-I in
1952 to Advisory Committee hearing in
July, 2015. A lot of research went into
this!! |
| Author: |
Brigid Schulte |
| Source: |
Washington Post |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
How Big Pharma Used Feminism To Get The "Female Viagra" Approved |
| Date: |
8/18/2015 |
| Description: |
Analysis of the playbook of "Even the
Score." Very useful and strong critical
perspective. |
| Author: |
Azeen Ghorayshi |
| Source: |
Buzzfeed |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Flibanserin: The Female Viagra is a Failed Me-too Antidepressant |
| Date: |
8/17/2015 |
| Description: |
Analyzes "institutional corruption" at the
heart of the flibanserin/eventhescore
campaign. Legal, but unethical influences.
Trials show statistical but not meaningful
effects. Slippery targeted indication (HSDD).
COI in developing measures. |
| Author: |
Emily Wheeler, Madeline Brodt, Shannon Peters, and Lisa Cosgrove. |
| Source: |
Mad in America blog |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
'I Want To Want To Have Sex' |
| Date: |
8/17/2015 |
| Description: |
Journalist looks for women with low
desire problems to profile. She interviews
the familiar suspects who have made the
pro-flibanserin rounds for months (aren't
we tired of them and their practiced one-
liners?) but also finds some anti-drug
women whose stories are quite different. |
| Author: |
Amy Nordrum |
| Source: |
International Business Times |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Raleigh's Sprout Pharmaceuticals awaits FDA ruling on female libido drug |
| Date: |
8/15/2015 |
| Description: |
Sprout plans to quadruple its employees,
charge $30-$75/mo above insurance, open
plants in Virginia and Georgia and go for a
$2B/yr market. Gyn John Thorp at UNC
offers some critical views. |
| Author: |
John Murawski |
| Source: |
Charlotte Observer |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Drug executives seeking approval for female libido pill previously ran afoul of FDA rules |
| Date: |
8/14/2015 |
| Description: |
Reports story of Sprout executives'
previous history with SLATE Pharma,
manufacturer of Testopel, in 2010. 10
page letter from FDA detailing unethical
marketing practices. Big boosters of
testosterone for everything! |
| Author: |
Matthew Perrone |
| Source: |
The Toronto Star |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
What Big Pharma Doesn't Want You To Know About 'Female Viagra' |
| Date: |
8/14/2015 |
| Description: |
Nine minute video by Center for
American Progress. Great research - FDA
list of actual drugs available for sexual
problems, false information by Sprout
and "Even the Score, Cindy Pearson of
National Women’s Health Network gives
the critique very powerfully. |
| Author: |
Igor Volsky & Victoria Fleischer |
| Source: |
Thinkprogress.org |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Women's sex drug gets political hard sell |
| Date: |
8/13/2015 |
| Description: |
Emphasis on the eventhescore politicking.
Criticism from Susan Wood, follow the
Sprout money to NCL and SWHR, and
mention of the "intimidating" environment
according to urologist Hanno at the advisory
hearing. |
| Author: |
Sarah Karlin |
| Source: |
Politico |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Drugmaker, Women Waiting for Female Sex-Drug |
| Date: |
8/12/2015 |
| Description: |
2 minute video from Associated Press
that gives a snippet of our song, but
mostly emphasizes the hard-working little
start-up, Sprout. Well, the reporter is
based in Raleigh, NC, after all... |
| Author: |
Allen Breed |
| Source: |
Associated Press |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
'Female Viagra' Foes Denounce PR Campaign to Win FDA Approval |
| Date: |
8/10/2015 |
| Description: |
Thorough Medscape overview of letters
to
FDA from New View and PharmedOut
along
with Sprout 'answers' to accusations.
Must contact Medscape for full access. |
| Author: |
Robert Lowes |
| Source: |
Medscape |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Let's Stop Calling It 'Female Viagra,' Okay? |
| Date: |
8/3/2015 |
| Description: |
Critical piece based on and embedding
Aaron Carroll's blog that reviews the
many
differences between flibanserin and
Viagra. |
| Author: |
Melissa Dahl |
| Source: |
New York Magazine |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
[VIDEO] What is Flibanserin (AKA "Female Viagra")? |
| Date: |
7/27/2015 |
| Description: |
7 minute very thorough and comprehensive
video about flibanserin by a pharma-savvy
pediatrician. Devastating! |
| Author: |
Aaron Carroll MD |
| Source: |
The Incidental economist Blog |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
[AUDIO] BBC Radio Interviews on "Low Libido" |
| Date: |
7/14/2015 |
| Description: |
The part of this radio show on HSDD and
flibanserin is from 09:18 to 21:40.
Interviewed are Petra Boynton from UK and
Ray Moynhian from Australia. Very powerful
focus on creation of diagnosis by marketers. |
| Source: |
"Inside Health" (Hourlong show - most on HSDD and flibanserin) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Female Viagra a political tightrope for FDA, advisors warn |
| Date: |
7/6/2015 |
| Description: |
Melissa Healy reports on the editorial just
published in JAMA by 3 members of the
flibanserin Advisory Committee and points
out this means trouble for the drug's final
approval. |
| Author: |
Melissa Healy |
| Source: |
L. A. Times |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Evaluation of Flibanserin: Science and Advocacy at the FDA |
| Date: |
7/6/2015 |
| Description: |
Comprehensive editorial by 3 members
of
the June 4 Advisory Committee for
flibanserin. They review all the negatives
-
"Even the Score," shifting end points,
limited
efficacy, many side effects and
complications - sounds like thumbs
down. Contact JAMA for full text. |
| Author: |
Gellad, WF, Flynn, KE, & Alexander, GC |
| Source: |
JAMA |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
US FDA set to approve flibanserin, the female Viagra |
| Date: |
7/4/2015 |
| Description: |
Crusading investigative journalist Ray
Moynihan knocks the wind out of
flibanserin's sails with his critical overview
of the politics, the lack of effectiveness, the
harms, the whole enchilada! |
| Author: |
Ray Moynihan |
| Source: |
The Saturday Paper (Australia) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Many women reject female 'Viagra' pill |
| Date: |
6/29/2015 |
| Description: |
Interesting UK survey shows most
women
would not take flibanerin especially after
learning it has to be taken chronically. |
| Author: |
UK Medix survey |
| Source: |
Health24 |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
FDA advisors urge physician certification for flibanserin |
| Date: |
6/23/2015 |
| Description: |
Psychiatry newsletter emphasizes
burdens
of Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy
that
will come with flibanserin approval,
especially the likelihood of "physician
certification." This will be too high a bar
for
many busy doctors. |
| Author: |
Elizabeth Mechcatie |
| Source: |
Clinical Psychiatry News |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Does the female Viagra really work? |
| Date: |
6/22/2015 |
| Description: |
Here is a really good, thorough and
critical
article from the UK Daily Mail
that hits all the high points about
medicalization, poor efficacy, side
effects,
false idea of normal libido, will be
overprescribed and overmarketed. |
| Author: |
John Naish |
| Source: |
UK Daily Mail |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
"Arousal first!" desire may be more typical for women and it doesn't need a cure |
| Date: |
6/21/2015 |
| Description: |
Very important lengthy piece featuring
arguments for Responsive desire ("Arousal
first!") rather than Spontaneous desire being
the norm. Many quotes from New Viewers. |
| Author: |
Zosia Bielski |
| Source: |
The Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
There's a female sex pill? Give me a loaded dishwasher any day |
| Date: |
6/20/2015 |
| Description: |
Tongue in cheek - or maybe not - argument
that desire comes from husbands doing
housework. UK author Susan Maushart of
book called Wifework cited. |
| Author: |
Victoria White |
| Source: |
Herald (Ireland) |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Is the multi-million dollar campaign for a female viagra just pink wash? |
| Date: |
6/20/2015 |
| Description: |
Australian sexologists such as Juliet Richters
weigh in with criticism about flibanserin. |
| Author: |
Nicky Phillips |
| Source: |
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
[AUDIO] Exploring "female Viagra," women's libidos and sexual dysfunction |
| Date: |
6/17/2015 |
| Description: |
50 minutes of terrific and thorough
interviewing by expert host Marty Moss-
Coane about flibanserin. History of drugs
for women, harms, efficacy, theories of
sexual desire, questions about Sprout
Pharma - the whole enchilada!! |
| Author: |
Thea Cacchioni, Meredith Chivers and Debby Herbenick |
| Source: |
WHYY (NPR Radio in Philadelphia) |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
A pill to control female desire? Dream on. |
| Date: |
6/15/2015 |
| Description: |
It's not women's desire that needs fixing
but society's idea of what's normal. |
| Author: |
Jennifer O'Connell |
| Source: |
Irish Times |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Sex, drugs and confusion |
| Date: |
6/15/2015 |
| Description: |
Analysis of an Australian TV doctor whose
facts about flibanserin were all wrong. I'ts
the same as Viagra; there are no side
effects, etc. Is this what the publicity will be
like? |
| Source: |
Media Watch on Australian TV |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Bad Sexual Chemistry: Female viagra is a flawed idea |
| Date: |
6/15/2015 |
| Description: |
Reviews side effects, miniscule
effectiveness, and differences from Viagra
and quotes Adriane Fugh-Berman's
testimony. |
| Author: |
Suzanne Harrington |
| Source: |
Irish Examiner |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Politics of Pleasure |
| Date: |
6/14/2015 |
| Description: |
In the Indian context. This short analysis
touches on issues of pleasure that seem
completely overlooked by the US press
coverage of the flibanserin approval. |
| Author: |
Jolene Gupta |
| Source: |
DNAIndia |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Aid to Women, or Bottom Line? Advocates Split on Libido Pill |
| Date: |
6/13/2015 |
| Description: |
Front page New York Times article
exposes
further links between "Even the Score,"
Sprout Pharma, and the flibanserin
hearings. It's very
important to see this attention paid to the
improper politics. |
| Author: |
Sabrina Tavernise and Andrew Pollack |
| Source: |
New York Times |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Is Female Viagra Really as Great as it Sounds? |
| Date: |
6/12/2015 |
| Description: |
Good overview with strong critical voices. |
| Author: |
Julia Robins |
| Source: |
MS. Magazine |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
A Pill to Boost Female Libido |
| Date: |
6/12/2015 |
| Description: |
Balanced overview - not critical enough
although all the points are there.
Concluding sentence: The F.D.A. should
only approve the drug if strong measures
are taken to reduce safety concerns. |
| Author: |
Editorial |
| Source: |
New York Times |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Susie Essman slams flibanserin [VIDEO] |
| Date: |
6/11/2015 |
| Description: |
On The Nightly
Show American comedian Susie Essman
brilliantly decks flibanserin in a 3 minute
rant. |
| Source: |
Comedy Central |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
FDA Approves Female-Libido-Enhancing Man |
| Date: |
6/9/2015 |
| Description: |
A satire about what women really need.
SEXUAL STIMULATION. A little heterosexist,
but everyone will get the point. I love it that
the FDA is approving this desire enhancer! |
| Source: |
THE ONION |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
"Pink Viagra": Clever media campaign, marginal drug |
| Date: |
6/8/2015 |
| Description: |
Thoughtful concise critique. Concludes, "A
magic pill may some day come, but its name
is not flibanserin. For women in search of
desire, a mediocre drug with a poor safety
profile is not a solution, its another
problem." |
| Author: |
Andre Picard |
| Source: |
Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Love, Sex, and Pink Viagra |
| Date: |
6/8/2015 |
| Description: |
Critical Piece - links to Guardian Op-Ed.
Nursing Clio is an open access, peer-
reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties
historical scholarship to present-day issues
related to gender and medicine. Author is
gender studies professor. |
| Author: |
Elizabeth Reis |
| Source: |
Nursing Clio |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
A 'Female Viagra' And Female Sexuality [AUDIO] |
| Date: |
6/8/2015 |
| Description: |
NPR national call-in radio show, On Point
Leonore
Tiefer with pro-drug Lauren Streicher
Chicago Ob-Gyn, plus Terry O'Neill from
NOW. It was a hot and heavy debate. |
| Author: |
National Public Radio |
| Source: |
WBUR |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
I'm a feminist. Here's why I don't support the "female Viagra". |
| Date: |
6/8/2015 |
| Description: |
Executive Director of National Women's
Health Network explains why flibanserin's
approval is not a benefit for women |
| Author: |
Cindy Pearson |
| Source: |
Washington Post |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
[AUDIO] Risks And Benefits Of So-Called Viagra-For-Women |
| Date: |
6/8/2015 |
| Description: |
Debate among Emily Nagoski, Adriane
Fugh-Berman, James Simon, Jennifer
Berman. Strikingly different perspectives.
Adriane says, boldly, HSDD was created to
sell drugs - go Adriane!! |
| Author: |
Nagoski, Fugh-Berman etc. |
| Source: |
Diane Rehm Radio Show |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Critics: Women's Sex Pill Approval Vote Driven By PR, Not Science |
| Date: |
6/7/2015 |
| Description: |
Thorough critique including powerful
quotes from Susan Wood, former head of
the FDA Office of Women's Health, who
resigned in 2005 over the Plan B fiasco. |
| Author: |
David Kroll |
| Source: |
Forbes |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Flibanserin Is Being Dubbed the Female Viagra, but Is It Really? |
| Date: |
6/7/2015 |
| Description: |
Journalist picks up on critiques from June 6 |
| Author: |
Heather Granruth |
| Source: |
Guardian (UK) Liberty Voice |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
A sexually satisfying event for women, or just a new identity for an old antidepressant? |
| Date: |
6/6/2015 |
| Description: |
Succinct critique by the director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. |
| Author: |
Jayne Lucke |
| Source: |
The Conversation |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Stop Calling Flibanserin "Female Viagra" |
| Date: |
6/5/2015 |
| Description: |
Shows why it's a basic misunderstanding to
call flibanserin pink Viagra. |
| Author: |
Helen Thompson |
| Source: |
Smithsonian |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Is "Female Viagra" What Women Want? [AUDIO] |
| Date: |
6/5/2015 |
| Description: |
Live studio interview of Leonore Tiefer on
Brian Lehrer WNYC New York (NPR
radio). The day after the FDA vote. |
| Author: |
Brian Lehrer, Leonore Tiefer |
| Source: |
WNYC Radio Interview |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Flibanserin sparks debate about women and sexuality |
| Date: |
6/5/2015 |
| Description: |
Only press piece to take on issue of spontaneous vs responsive desire. Thoughtful and useful. |
| Author: |
Tracy Clark-Flory |
| Source: |
Vocativ.com |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Op-Ed: We shouldn't push dubious 'pink Viagra' pills on women and call it emancipation |
| Date: |
6/5/2015 |
| Description: |
Guardian following FDA vote on flibanserin |
| Author: |
Barbara Mintzes and Leonore Tiefer |
| Source: |
The Guardian US |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Female Viagra FDA Approval: 5 Facts Women Should Know About Flibanserin |
| Date: |
6/5/2015 |
| Description: |
Thoughtful coverage of flibanserin vs.
Viagra information. Only coverage to
identify study population as being married
average of 10 years. (And still being
premenopausal.) |
| Author: |
Amy Nordrum |
| Source: |
International Business Times |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Astroturfers rule the day: FDAs flibanserin reviewers were "emotionally blackmailed" by a slick lobbying campaign |
| Date: |
6/5/2015 |
| Description: |
Blog by crusading Canadian journalist.
Probably the only piece covering the
flibanserin hearing that will use the term
astroturf. VERY powerful. |
| Author: |
Alan Cassels |
| Source: |
Health News Review |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
"Viagra for women" wins FDA approval with strings attached |
| Date: |
6/4/2015 |
| Description: |
Widely read newspaper emphasizes
approval
WITH STRINGS ATTACHED and
mentions
need for special certification for doctors
and
pharmacists. |
| Author: |
Ben Mitchell |
| Source: |
USA Today |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
FDA backing of 'Viagra' for women pill draws concern from critics |
| Date: |
6/4/2015 |
| Description: |
Quotes at length from Canadian critics
including Lori Brotto, Thea Cacchioni,
and
David Mackenzie. |
| Author: |
Wendy Stueck |
| Source: |
The Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
"Viagra for Women" Gets Push for F.D.A. Approval |
| Date: |
5/31/2015 |
| Description: |
Thorough examination of issues at stake
in
upcoming flibanserin hearing June 4
2015.
Discloses questionable practices by
Sprout
Pharma. Quotes from Thea Cacchioni
and
Leonore Tiefer. |
| Author: |
Andrew Pollack |
| Source: |
New York Times |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
Will Female Viagra be an FDA Boner? |
| Date: |
5/28/2015 |
| Description: |
Good critical overview of Sprout Pharma
case, including data about substantial
adverse events and limited efficacy. Very
effective takedown on "fairness" rhetoric. |
| Author: |
Josh Bloom |
| Source: |
Science 2.0 |
| URL: |
visit link |
| Title: |
The Drug that Cried "Feminism" |
| Date: |
3/17/2015 |
| Description: |
Powerful feminist arguments against
flibanserin: it is "more like Spanish fly, or
horny goat weed, or one of the other
aphrodisiacs that have been
disappointing humans for millennia." It's
"sinister" to misappropriate feminist
rhetoric. It's reactionary to try and
eliminate "pesky government
interference." And forget the "nebulous
world of brain chemistry." |
| Author: |
Alessandra Hirsch, Rebecca Holliman, and Adriane Fugh-Berman |
| Source: |
The Hastings Center |
| URL: |
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| Title: |
Nothing is Wrong with your Sex Drive |
| Date: |
2/27/2015 |
| Description: |
Op-Ed focused on HSDD NOT being a
disease because women often experience
sexual desire as responsive, not
spontaneous. |
| Author: |
Emily Nagoski |
| Source: |
New York Times |
| URL: |
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