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

To: Mitchell D. Wilcox who wrote (5185)	1/31/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: Neil_L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23519

<<There was absolutely nothing wrong or uncomfortable about the commercial so someone was probably throwing up a smokescreen, either Vivus or NBC.>> Mitchell, I agree. I live in the Atlanta area and quite a few local urologists advertise on TV...they are much more blunt about the problem than the Vivus ad was. It appears from descriptions of the ad that I read that the one we are seeing now is the same one they made for the superbowl...also I can't see Vivus having multiple ads at this point. So it begs the question...why was it turned down? Could probably be that they over committed or wanted to get another spot for a big advertiser, like Annheiser. Whatever the case, their excuse for not showing it is lame. Neil.

To: Mitchell D. Wilcox who wrote (5185)	1/31/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Respond to of 23519

To ALL: Vivus got mentioned on p. 119 of the 2/98 issue of SmartMoney, article about on-line trading. A "internet trading guru" named Bruno Galliano had this to say, talking about how he trades on the net as compared to old-fashioned full-service broker: ---- ... Not that Bruno Galliano doesn't do his research. He does. But, he laughs, it's hard for him to imagine a time when he would have asked his old stockbroker about Vivus--a California concern that develops treatments for erectile disfunction. Explains Bruno, who picked up $20,000 of the stock with a single click of his mouse: "Hey, I'm 63 and I'm retired, so it's something I think about, right? Plus, I hear about it all day long from friends of mine." With his old broker charging several hundreds of dollars in commissions, Bruno says, "I never would've bought that kind of company before." ---- Hmm. So buying $20 K of VVUS is not something you want to talk to a stockbroker about. But you're willing to tell the whole world about it in SmartMoney. This does not compute. Is there an editor in that house? Anyway, it's a positive mention, but stuck at the very end of the article. Cheers, David