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Anti-depressant is 'Viagra for women'

Updated on 17 November 2009

By More4 News

Scientists developing an anti-depressant drug claim they have discovered it has a very marketable side effect - it increases a woman's libido. More 4 News reports.

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It has been dubbed "the female Viagra" - a new drug, originally trialled as an anti-depressant, has turned out to have rather more sexy side effects for women.

It works on the pleasure centre of a woman's brain to restore flagging libido, and it could be on sale within two years.

So will women be rushing to the chemists come 2011, or will it be husbands that are slipping it to their wives?

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