"the pill"

When 23-year-old Sarah Brison awoke at 1 a.m. one early July morning with excruciating chest pain, she thought she was having a panic attack. A heart attack didn’t cross her mind; after all, she was a fit and healthy gym rat. There was no reason to believe it was anything serious.
Even when the Surrey, England, woman’s vision went blurry, she suddenly couldn’t feel her limbs and she started to sweat profusely, she was still in denial about the grave danger she was in. Healthy women in their early 20s don’t have serious health problems.

As if there are not already way too many highly substandard pharmaceutical drugs on the market: now along comes ‘female Viagra.’ This same drug, while in the testing phase, has already been rejected by the FDA twice since 2010. Nevertheless, the FDA almost always follows the advice of its appointed experts, so it is expected to be fully approved soon despite serious side effects.