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Biotech / Medical : Vivus, Why the Slide?

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To: Anaxagoras who wrote (1740)	5/28/1997 10:52:00 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	of 3991

A, I must have hit a raw nerve here I see. Sorry about that. The issue here is the accuracy of any medical info investors get which relates to its reliability AND the reliability of the publication it is in. Do you believe everything you read in the National Enquirer? All I am saying is that press releases can be very, misleading because anybody can get up and write anything they want such as we now have a cure for old age. When something appears instead in the NEJM we all pay close attention. The issu of boilerplate disclaimers may be true but I didn't see any disclaimer in any of Vivus' press releses ( that I can remember ).Why is that ? Because Vivus research is of better quality I think. Why do companies have to go to Mexico to do their reasearch Anaxagoras? I become more suspicious about that ( remember the recent strawberry poisonings ? they were freom Mexico. And you get warned about not eating or dinking anything off the market down there; they don't get the purple heart for sensitivity to health care concerns down in Mehico in my book. And lastly I was referring to PFE and Viagra in the Brit.J of Urology. I don't want to paint with a broad brush and there are some great physicians overseas; it is just that the overall situation is spotty and ON AVERAGE foreign medicine is not as good as here . So why bother? We have our hands full as it is to try and deal with the flood of medical knowledge in this country we just don't have the time to deal with overseas problems. A good example of the stricter US medical standards is if you compare the PDR with the British equivalent , " Martindale's Pharmacopoeia ". the latter has three times at least the number of drugs in the PDR ( many of them dating back 50 years ): We don't use them here because we tried them under our rigorous standards and they don't work so out they go. TYPED/NOT READ.TA.

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