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

To: Edderd who wrote (4331)	1/5/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Respond to of 23519

>>(most of us) would like to be sexual Tarzans so if it >>might work you can bet some of us will try it. Ed, Thanks for your comment about my writing. In fact, I'm giving up my work as a nuclear accident risk assessor to be a beach bum in Hawaii, with a forthcoming book on the topic of Bikini Girls. Several of my "healthy male" friends are interested in obtaining Muse by mail order from the UK, but I don't know if it is yet available. Will anyone care about the side effects? Look at the recent FDA action to ban a widely used antihistamine. The threshold for safety with a therapy for a non-life-threatening illness could be set very low when the FDA decisionmaker weighs the benefits against the risk. Maybe just a few unfortunate souls who abuse the stuff and end up in hospital could stop the party. Also, we have a War on Drug Users, and the expected "recreational use" cohort will be severely frowned upon by the DEA. After all, who would have thought a decade ago that eight different forms of 5-androstene and forty different forms of testosterone would end up placed in Schedule III by the DEA? Body builders started using them, and that was very, very bad! If the stuff works as well as Pfizer would like us to think, it WILL be abused, and any inherent side effects WILL manifest, perhaps dramatically, and it could then end up being banned, or, at a minimum, scheduled by the DEA as a drug of abuse, with consequent reductions in scrips. Aspirin is not a good comparison because of the long history of unregulated sale, and the numerous benefits (to some) from the drug. Comparison to presciption allergy medicines and diet pills is more appropriate. David P.S. I'm very glad to hear Zebra is on the Vivus mailing list. Hopefully Leland would not have "pulled the trigger" unless MCA approval of the second factory was a sure thing.