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

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (4398)	7/16/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Jim Lamb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

Here comes the first lawsuit,it was bound to happen.I hope the future ones are as weak as this one.ROTFL.This is one hungry lawyer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday July 16, 7:02 pm Eastern Time Viagra User Sues Manufacturer By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A 63-year-old man who had a heart attack after using Viagra for four days sued Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE - news) for $85 million Thursday in the first lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company over the impotence pill. ''No one needs to improve their sex life to the point where they might die,'' said Diego Padro, a retiree who suffers from diabetes. Padro was stricken on May 26, a day and a half after taking the last of four pills, and was hospitalized for eight days. ''The warning about Viagra to the medical profession is inadequate,'' said Ronald Benjamin, a lawyer for Padro and his wife. Pfizer said it has not seen the lawsuit and had no comment on the case. However, it said Viagra is ''a safe and effective medicine for erectile dysfunction when used as recommended in the approved package insert,'' and Pfizer spokeswoman Mariann Caprino acknowledged ''there is a degree of cardiac risk associated with sexual activity.'' Padro, who formerly ran his own photo lab, said he had recently passed both a cardiogram and a treadmill stress test. He said his doctor also gave him Viagra. Many men with diabetes suffer from impotence. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------