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To: BigKNY3 who wrote (6760)	1/21/1999 6:05:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 9523

U.K. May Let Viagra Be Given to Some Publicly-Funded Patients Bloomberg News January 21, 1999, 4:51 a.m. ET U.K. May Let Viagra Be Given to Some Publicly-Funded Patients London, Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Pfizer Inc.'s blockbuster impotence drug Viagra should be made available to limited numbers of patients in Britain through the publicly funded National Health Service, the U.K. Department of Health proposed, reversing an earlier decision. Frank Dobson, secretary of state for health, proposed that the drug be prescribed from public funds to people with spinal- cord injuries, prostate removals, multiple sclerosis and other conditions that may render them sexually impotent. Others without those conditions but suffering from ''severe distress'' may also get the drug under ''exceptional circumstances,'' he said. The proposal is the latest for dealing with concern that patients seeking a remedy for impotence -- estimated to number 2 million in the U.K. -- may represent a huge burden on state news.com