BigK, Re: the Viagra/MUSE combination,
I suggest you read the board above that you have been scrolling past to read the SI VVUS posts, particularly the last word that I put in almost a year and a half ago, (yes, I rewrote it upon the request of Frostman):
<<Finally, most people in the scientific community expect the approval and marketing of Viagra to have an eventual positive impact on MUSE sales as these are likely to be complimentary treatments.>>
Off-label uses of drugs are nothing new. I know you have never had the situation of standing eye-to-eye with a person who has come to you for medical help. When you know their problem backward and forward, and your basic science tells you that the combination of two drugs may work where either fail, you inform the patient of the risks and benefits and you do the deed, label or no. Combo therapy for Hypertension is old hat. Combo therapy for type II diabetes is new to the label, but I've been doing it for years before the labeling was there. I tell people all the time, "Medicine ain't golf, there are no rules except the main one, the needs of the patient come first".
I see no reason that two drugs with different mechanisms should not be used in combination to lower side effects. To me it is like the gamma knife. Several atomic particle beams are focused from different directions so that they pass harmlessly through tissue but when they converge on a single point, the effect is devastating to the tissue (cancer or AVM) at the convergence.
VLAD,
I take umbrage at your remark that the vagaries of the market may make one "testy", I assume that this is a sexist slam at those of us (male) who have much more testosterone "testy" than the females do, thereby rendering us hopelessly aggressive and prone to attend Professional Wrestling Matches and Topless Bars. I expect an immediate retraction and apology to the DMA, (Domesticated Males of America). I also expect that you will never use the term "testy" in mixed company again.
My wife made me type this.
Don't lose your sense of humor folks; if you can't take a joke you shouldn't be investing in this company.
Still Long,
Zebra |
