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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jack velte who wrote (3478)	12/12/1997 12:41:00 AM
From: RT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

Jack, You can order the Vivus sampler kit. Includes injector, string , 2 1/2 pound lead weight + copy of Penthouse Magazine. RT

To: jack velte who wrote (3478)	12/12/1997 1:30:00 AM
From: Zebra 365	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23519

Jack, some day you will learn to ignore Asensio. I understand a doctor in Siberia is determining whether MUSE is effective by having his subjects drive a roofing nail into a two-by-four without using their hands. <gg> I gotta get some sleep. Here is the actual press release about the Letter, (not a peer reviewed study report) written to the Lancet by Dr. Greco. Read this press release and then go to the VVUS web site and look at the real studies there. This is not how people of science go about determining the truth..... FURTHER TESTING OF DRUG FOR IMPOTENCE (p 1682) Doctors from Italy report in a Research Letter in The Lancet that a drug called alprostadil can improve penile function. 123 men underwent tests with this drug and *improvement in blood flow into erectile arteries of the penis was shown in all* patients and an increase in penis volume in almost all patients. The drug was inserted into the urethra, and its passage into the penile arteries followed. Dr Ermanno Greco and Dr Paolo Polonio-Balbi from Rome, Italy, measured the rigidity of the penis by a penile buckling test rather than the "Erection Assessment Scale" that has been used to evaluate this drug in the past. The buckling test was positive when a weight of 1 kg (2.2 pounds) did not buckle the organ, and was judged complete when pressure within the penis was 75 mm Hg after visual erotic stimulation.** Of the 123 men investigated, 11 had complete penile rigidity and 16 a full, but not lasting, erection. The increase in penis volume found was not related to hardness. Hope this was a soundproof office, great way to clear a waiting room Contact: Dr Ermanno Greco, Centre for Impotence and Fertility, Rome, Italy; tel +39 6 884 2213. Please mention The Lancet as the source of this material I personally spoke with Dr. Greco in Rome on Thursday, and he promised to send me more details of this test method I will post them here when I get them. Zebra

To: jack velte who wrote (3478)	12/12/1997 4:24:00 AM
From: raymond marcotte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

jack, i will bet that there is not a single affirmative response to your question about the vivus-muse product. none here because i have been sceptical, too old to care that much, and not an investor. ray