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

To: BigKNY3 who wrote (3890)	7/2/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: JEFF CHAPMAN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9523

NEWS FLASH:::: (COMTEX) B: Brazilian man's jaws harden after taking Viagra B: Brazilian man's jaws harden after taking Viagra RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 2 (Kyodo) -- A Brazilian man hardly expected side effects from taking anti-impotence pill Viagra for the first time, but his jaw hardened up and forced him to keep the mouth open for some 40 minutes. The 43-year-old man told local daily Folha de Sao Paulo he got the U.S.-made pill with a doctor's prescription and used the drug before intercourse with his girlfriend. ''I managed to reach an erection, but about half an hour later my jaws stiffened and I could not shut my mouth for about 40 minutes,'' Joao Roberto Toquero told the Sao Paulo daily. His doctor has said the side effect was unprecedented and the local representative of Pfizer Inc. that manufactures the pill said the episode should not be attributed to the drug. The man had taken a 50-milligram dose of the medicine and said during the time he could not close his mouth he felt no pain or headache, which has been reported among several men who have taken the pill in Brazil. He added he is pleased with his sexual performance after using the pill. ''I am kind of scared of using the pill again, but I feel like trying it once more,'' he said. Viagra had hit the country's headlines earlier when a mayor announced he would distribute the pill among men in his municipality to enlarge the local population. The mayor's aim is to increase the share of his city in a federal fund that is distributed among cities based on their total population. The unexpectedly low sales of the Viagra, which costs in Brazil the equivalent of 25 dollars a pill, have disappointed drugstore owners and surprised medical authorities. Brazil's Health Ministry authorized sales of the pill in June and it is sold exclusively by prescription. -0- * end of story * ....Enlarge the population huh... in what sense? ;) BTW, I got this story from mytrack.com's software which is free and can be downloaded here: mytrack.com If you do sign up for this (you get Comtex newswires around the clock on markets around the world plus Marketguide reports for free, with news/quotes/ticker in 'pushed' streaming format), please put 'Muthavugah' in the referred by field...