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

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (5893)	10/10/1998 1:31:00 AM
From: Bull-like	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

UF, I actually don't like these whisper numbers. I think it's a blatant attempt to manipulate a stock's price to higher levels, and then short it down simply because a company doesn't meet the ridiculous "whisper" number. I wouldn't feel giddy about these so called high whisper numbers. I see nothing wrong with pfe earning 58 cents or 59 cents, if other people don't like the numbers and sell, hey, I just buy more pfe. You can only manipulate a big-cap stock for so much and for so long, there is just too much liquidity for a big-cap like pfe. Da bull

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (5893)	10/10/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

From the UK - HRT wives drive their men to Viagra by Michael Jeffries A growing number of men are being forced to ask their doctors for Viagra on the NHS in order to keep pace with their wives, who are keeping young on hormone replacement therapy. A leading consultant said today that middle-aged women on HRT are demanding more than their husbands can give. The result is that the men are turning to Viagra to help them save their marriages. The revelation comes as more than a quarter of hospital doctors polled by the British Medical Association, said they felt it unfair to charge patients for Viagra while the contraceptive pill and HRT were free on the NHS. Dr Paul Schober, a consultant in genito-urinary medicine in Leicestershire, says in the BMA News Review journal: "A patient pointed out to me that his need for Viagra was produced by the new lease of life given to his wife by hormone replacement therapy. "He argued that if women could be prescribed treatment to improve their sex lives, why not men? "His impotence threatened his relationship and single, older men do not live as long as those in good relationships, so his future health was at risk," he says. Dr Schober was one of 26 per cent of hospital doctors taking part in a BMA survey who felt it was unfair to charge patients for Viagra while the Pill was free on the NHS. Dr David Pickersgill, from Norfolk, said: "To describe Viagra, as some have, as a recreational drug is not only incorrect, but over-looks the huge amount of prescribing which currently goes on for drugs whose use may similarly be described as, at least in part, recreational. "Examples would include the prescription of the contraceptive pill or a prescription of HRT for women who complain of decreasing libido in their middle years." © Associated Newspapers Ltd., 09 October 1998 This Is London thisislondon.co.uk