Name: 'Female Viagra': What took so long?
Uploaded: 2015-08-21
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Description: After years of debate, the FDA approved a drug to boost women’s sex drive.

The female Viagra was approved and then subsequently bought by Valeant. Does this drug have the potential to be a block buster? What do you think? I think it does. Did you wear that shirt on purpose? I must have. No I think if you look at the kind of macro view of pharma. You know all of these drug companies are looking for their next big hit. It's been really hard. They're putting tons of money in R & D and they're not coming up with anything that is the best kind of drug for them which is a recurring thing. This is that kinda thing. So it's looking good. Brian, some have suggested that the FDA might have approved it after rejecting it twice because of a campaign that was really aligned around gender equity because there's so many drugs that treat this for men. Do you think that's possible? I think the FDA approval process is a very complicated [ LAUGH ] impenetrable process from the outside, and I think it could have certainly played a role. It is kind of a feel good story, and there's a woman who's the CEO of the company that's being acquired that's manufacturing the drug now and That's an interesting entrepreneurial story too. Another thing Valeant's making a bet on this drug. They have extra cash to make a bet on this drug because they inverted a few years ago became a Canadian company. They're paying lower taxes, they can kind of roll the dice. So a lot of stories rolled into one there. Yeah. [ MUSIC ]

'Female Viagra': What took so long?

After years of debate, the FDA approved a drug to boost women’s sex drive.