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

To: VLAD who wrote (6551)	4/7/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: RT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

VLAD, You must be on Nina's preferred call back list. I called early this afternoon and received no response. I recall Vivus had a 5.1M advertising budget. I also recall the FDA pulled their TV ads spots. Did she mention if this affected the advertising budget? I still believe the refill rate indicates user dissatisfaction. With over 500,000 users their should be an enormous backlog for product, instead inventories have increased. My second concern is what responsible management team would reduce production from 750,000 units per month to 600,000 units per month, two quarters in a row. I can somewhat understand the slippage last quarter, but under no circumstance this quarter. Personally, I'd like to see Lelands head on a silver platter, stuffed with a U know what. Vivus has suffered long enough under his leadership. RT