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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 (6163)	10/27/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

FAA Warns Pilots About Pfizer's Viagra, Dallas Paper Reports Bloomberg News October 27, 1998, 9:29 a.m. ET Dallas, Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug Viagra can impair the ability of airline pilots to distinguish between blue and green, the two colors often used in cockpit instrument displays and taxiway lights at airports, the Dallas Morning News reported. Federal Aviation Administration officials said that flight doctors are being asked to tell pilots not to fly within six hours of taking Viagra. Air Force Doctor Donato Borillo, who wrote about Viagra's visual effects on flying in the Federal Air Surgeons Medical Bulletin, said that while only about 3 percent of patients experience visual trouble, the blue-green impairment could be dangerous, the paper said. Earlier this month, there were reports of Pentagon plans to spend about $55 million in 1999 to provide Viagra to U.S. troops and retired military personnel. (Online edition of DMN 10/27 www.dallas.news.com) --Mary Wood in the Princeton newsroom (609) 279-4028 /jjs More News: PFE