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

To: Gene Voss who wrote (4454)	1/10/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 23519

MrCurious, I believe a massive mass marketing campaign wii come out of Vivus a soon as all the production conduits and 12 cylinder engines are ramped up and approved for full production. It would be wrong to mass advertise this now if you can't provide the product: it would frustrate consumers, not a good marketing step. With the J of Urology Nov97 article where MUSE was put up against the needle ( Caverject ) and THE WORST ED CASES ( full blown,advanced, organic, dead nerves and vassels, and came up 37% (needle 90%) as expected we know that Vivus will work in at least 37% of ULTASEVERE ED THAT USES needle. From there it is uphill.If you factor in mod ED and mild or psychogenic Ed your numbers begin to go towaeds 70% IMO thus bringing the final average efectiveness in the 45-65% aerea registered in the published MUSE studies ( NEJM, Lahey clinic/Diabetes, AUA abstracts/prostatectomy ). All we need now is th eproduct.It will come .Time now is getting on our side.If 2nd plant is approved Q2 or even Q3, 6 months from here, eager, knowledgable investors will buy it ahead. Lam Researsh a great semiconductor equip manuf bottomed at 18.Knowledgable people started buing it there.By th etime, 6 MONTHS later Merrill and the Big Boys gave a buy reccom stock was 27.The knowledgable people already had a 50% profit on it. It topped at 43 I believe. The market is definitely exaggerating. Remember in this enviroment , since Oct crash, only "the perfect " survive, gg. ANY imperfection gets severy clobbered, unless you are Gillette of course. TA