directs the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Division of Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Products.
“Today’s approval provides women with another treatment option for this condition,” Hylton said in the news release.
According to the agency, HSDD is not caused by any medical or psychiatric condition, relationship issues or drug side effects.
Instead, women with HSDD have “previously experienced no problems with sexual desire,” the FDA said. “Generalized HSDD refers to HSDD that occurs regardless of the type of sexual activity, situation or partner.”
The exact way in which Vyleesi helps stimulate sexual desire remains unclear, but it
