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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ)
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To: Mkilloran who wrote (18011)1/21/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: DaiS  Read Replies (2) of 23519
 
MK,

I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth, I just exaggerated a bit...

I've been trying to think of an analogy between viagra and other drugs....an erection is essentially an all or nothing response in relation to penetration - it's either hard enough to go in or it aint. So in viagra you have a drug in which the response is very much less marked in those individuals that are most severely afflicted.

Suppose morphine were like viagra. It would cause no pain relief to those in agony, but relieve slight pain....an anti-depressant being useless in the severely depressed but very effective in removing the blues.... Zantac relieving slight indigestion but useless in those with ulcers....?

So, if you ration viagra only to those most severely afflicted you kinda challenge the manufacturer Pfizer that they really haven't done it yet with viagra...

OK muse doesn't work for everyone, but I think the contrast between those more or less severely affected by ED is less. In the Amsterdam conference there was an abstract in which a neural net approach (artificial brain) was used try to identify the factors that distinguish muse responders and non-responders. This is fashionable now in medicine for complex diagnosis. Anyway I think it must have been a puzzle to the muse scientists why some men respond and some don't. The artificial brain failed to point to any factor or combination of factors in the patients' records. So it remains a bit of a mystery. Well what it seems to me is that there is less strong association between severity and success with muse than viagra.

DaiS
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