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

To: Brander who wrote (3974)	5/7/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: Linda Kaplan	Respond to of 7041

<g> Well, not as great a public service as reports on Zonagne's poster, (which would serve us all) but it sounds like we have some takers for the PE problem here, so if you're taking special requests, why not! Linda

To: Brander who wrote (3974)	5/8/1998 7:38:00 PM
From: Linda Kaplan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7041

All: We heard that Zonagen was trying to get approval to market Vasomax in Mexico. Vasomax is not approved in the US. Viagra IS approved in the US and look at Mexico's response to the request to market Viagra in Mexico. In view of this, who thinks that Vasomax will succeed in being marketed in Mexico? Headline: Mexico says will block Viagra imports for now ====================================================================== MEXICO CITY, May 8 (Reuters) - Mexico will block imports of the new impotence drug Viagra until there is more proof that it works, the country's health minister said on Friday. "For now we are not going to register it (as a legal drug) because it is not a medicine that has shown effects of improving male impotence," Health Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente told the government news agency Notimex. Thousands of men in the United States would disagree, saying the prescription medicine developed by New York-based Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) has improved their sex lives. It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March. Health experts in Mexico also have warned men in this heavily macho society against gobbling Viagra, stressing that it is drug for a specific medical condition and won't improve the sexual prowess of men who achieve an erection normally. De la Fuente, quoted by Notimex in Barcelona, where he was attending an international health conference, said Viagra "appears to be beneficial in some cases" but urged caution because the drug was not a "magic pill." The government already has warned pharmacies in Mexico -- where all manner of prescription drugs are available over the counter -- against selling Viagra to people without a prescription. "Medicine used indiscriminately can have harmful effects on health," de la Fuente said. Copyright 1998, Reuters News Service