Flibanserin; Strokes in young people; Outdoor swimming; Research terminology - Causation v Association
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Treating low sex drive in women. Expert panels in the USA have voted in favour of a drug that has been dubbed 'Pink Viagra', but there are serious reservations. Outdoor swimming is the new trend for 2015, but should you take the plunge or go in slowly? Strokes in the under 55's have recently been reported to be on the increase: Dr Margaret McCartney takes a closer look at the evidence. And unpicking tricky terms to understand your health - causation versus association.
Presented by Dr Mark Porter.
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| 0:40.6 | Coming up today, Pink Viagra, really? |
| 0:43.7 | We reveal the truth behind the headlines promising help for women troubled by low sex drive. |
| 0:49.8 | Young strokes, we examine claims that the rating people in their 40s and 50s has increased |
| 0:55.1 | bucking the general downward trend in the UK and talking of trends we look at the |
| 1:00.2 | pros and cons of open water swimming which is enjoying a huge resurgence at the moment |
| 1:05.9 | when I say we okay so this is just the wooden. I'm just lowering myself centimetre by frozen centimetre. |
| 1:15.5 | It's quite cold. |
| 1:20.1 | More from a shivering Margaret McCartney later. |
| 1:24.1 | But first, we were intrigued by recent headlines |
| 1:26.8 | about the possible launch of a new treatment, flabansarin, for low sex drive in women. |
| 1:32.4 | Or, as BBC online news put it, |
| 1:34.7 | Female Viagra nears US approval after expert backing. |
| 1:38.8 | With one patient who had taken the new medication quoted as saying, |
| 1:42.1 | I want to want my husband. |
| 1:45.4 | It's that simple. |
| 1:50.0 | For us, flabansarin is a relationship saving and life-changing drug. |
| 1:53.2 | Well, to provide some perspective on this apparent breakthrough, |
| 1:57.7 | I'm joined on the line by Dr. Cynthia Graham from the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton and a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute |
| 2:01.9 | in America. There's been a lot in the media and in social media suggesting it has been approved, |
| 2:07.1 | but this was the vote taken by an expert advisory panel for the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration |
| 2:13.3 | in the state, and the vote was in favor, but with some real concerns and precautions that they |
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