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Biotech / Medical : PFE (Pfizer) How high will it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Ogier who wrote (1619)	4/25/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 9523

Viagra as preventive medicine? Here's an excerpt from a NY Times April 21 article: Erectile dysfunction, as impotence is clinically known, is estimated by specialists to affect 30 million American men. But not all men who have gone to doctors' offices for Viagra prescriptions suffer from impotence, these experts say. Many apparently want to have their sexual stamina improved. While Pfizer officials have repeatedly emphasized that Viagra is not an aphrodisiac, Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a urology professor at Boston University, said he believed that the drug might prevent erectile dysfunction, or ED, if men with normal capability took it every night. If such results are borne out in the study, this could greatly increase Viagra's potential market. "We have seen how people who want to prevent heart attacks can take aspirin," Goldstein said. "The same may be true with erectile dysfunction and Viagra. Men who take it at night report having good nocturnal erections, which may prevent ED over time." So, Richard, your projection may even be too conservative! But can we afford to take it every night?