A promising drug for low libido in women, bremelanotide, has been abandoned due to a small percentage of higher blood pressure in clinical trials.  Always interesting, since Viagra has that effect on many men and it was still released with great fanfare.  Hmmm.  The new hopeful “Viagra for women” is flibanserin, a drug investigated for depression that turned out to increase the whoopee quotient in women.  Clinical trials involving 5,000 women are proceeding nicely toward a 2011 approval.  Libigel, a testosterone replacement gel for women, is also in stage three trials.  You can get 1 or 2% micronized testosterone cream today fromyour compounding pharmacy, but many doctors don’t know how to prescribe it.  Women who use estradiol patches after menopause report feeling friskier, prettier, and er…hornier!  A recent British study reports that they’ll also have significantly less risk of gallbladder problems.  Those who take estradiol in a pill have (low but) double the gallbladder problems, since the hormone must be broken down by the liver – which is next door to the gall bladder – before being circulated through the body.  The lower doses of the patch are absorbed directly through the skin into the bloodstream.