After “Female Viagra,” Muscular Dystrophy Drug, Will FDA Stand Firmer Against Pressure To Approve?

You’d be hard-pressed to come up with two conditions as disparate as female sexual interest/arousal disorder and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

The first is a psychiatric diagnosis in women, while the latter, of course, is a fatal genetic disease that mainly affects boys, whose muscles deteriorate over time until they die, typically in their 20s or 30s.

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