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Biotech / Medical : Zonagen (zona) - good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: clochard who wrote (3108)	3/27/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: Dauntless	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7041

Steve "THEY DID NOT" Salgo <<<You might as well invent a new soft drink and then list the population of every other country in the world and say "see what I mean?".>>> See if you can connect the dots. Vasomax submitted for approval in Mexico - expected before year end - other Central & South American countries accept Mexican approval - ED population related to overall population - 450 million people is a shitload of people - ANY revenue from product sales is VERY important to a developing company - combining milestone payments, royalty payments & a low burn rate = profits...... If you can't see that population figures are germane to that line of thinking, it's not my problem - take some remedial coursework. <<<Almost every day a new lawsuit is filed, and you say "so?".>>> Yes, I say "SO?". Lawsuits filed are not lawsuits decided - at least last time I checked. Also, many of the claims I've read in the releases are nearly word for word from Asensio's various "reports" - and we know how honest & accurate they were. <<<Viagra is due out any day, and you shrug your shoulders.>>> You've already made this point - and as with most of your points it is old news. Everyone that cares already knows this. <<<No, I'm just a little shorts trader, but you must be getting paid to be here, because if you weren't, you would have sold any long position and moved on to real opportunities (if you were smart).>>> You don't know anything about what I do, buy or sell so don't make suggestions about how I should conduct my investments. Real opportunities - how about Zona's move from 15-24 in a few weeks - not a real opportunity? I guess not if you were on the wrong side of it, huh? You & others spend lots of time badmouthing Zonagen on Wexler's thread & on "Roger's short picks...." - you get lots of reinforcement there because many others with your views hang there. Don't come over here & expect to have all of us accept your ideas.

To: clochard who wrote (3108)	3/27/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Ploni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7041

FDA Approves First Impotence Pill By LAURAN NEERGAARD .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The government approved the first pill to treat impotence today, a therapy long-awaited by millions of men because it promises to restore sexual function without making them wince. Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra becomes the first nonsurgical impotence treatment that doesn't have to be either injected or inserted directly into the penis - and unlike those treatments, it doesn't cause erections unless the man is sexually stimulated. Between 10 million and 20 million men suffer impotence at some point in their lives, and an oral therapy has been so eagerly anticipated that analysts estimate Viagra's sales could reach $500 million by 2003. The pill, approved today by the Food and Drug Administration, will be available only by prescription. The FDA said Viagra, known chemically as sildenafil, appeared to cause few side effects. It works by blocking an enzyme found mainly in the penis. That enzyme is responsible for quelling an erection after sex by breaking down a chemical called cyclic GMP that is produced during sexual stimulation. The longer cyclic GMP stays around, the better chance a man has of an erection - hence Viagra's effect. Impotence is highly treatable, but until today the options all had drawbacks. Penile implants require surgery. Vacuum-style devices used during sex, including one that FDA just designated the first over-the-counter impotence remedy, force blood into the penis but interrupt lovemaking. Injecting drugs into the penis can be painful and sometimes causes hours-long erections. Men are squeamish about the suppository Muse, a tiny medicated pellet that is pushed into the end of the penis with a slender plunger. In studies of several thousand men, researchers reported that Viagra helped over 70 percent improve their erections. Headaches and upset stomach appeared to be the main side effects, although a few men given higher doses had a strange reaction: temporary vision disturbance that left them unable to distinguish between the colors blue and green. AP-NY-03-27-98 1110EST