The FDA advisory panel agreed that flibanserin wasn't significantly better than a placebo and that its slight benefits don’t justify its side effects: dizziness, nausea, fatigue, and depression.
As reported by CBS news, the FDA needed to be convinced that the drug increased sexual desire regardless of the occurrence of sex. However, an independent study revealed that the women taking the drug only reported a slight rise in sexual satisfaction.
With drugs for male sexual dysfunction
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2010.