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To: Bull-like who wrote (7181)	3/9/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 9523

For anyone interested in the latest heart attack treatment..interesting story. (Incidentally natrecor and nestritide were developed by SCIO, pending full FDA approval later this spring): biz.yahoo.com

To: Bull-like who wrote (7181)	3/10/1999 8:10:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 9523

Canadians runs hot and cold as Viagra approved THE WOMEN - The prospect of Viagra's easy availability is not exactly generating the same kind of enthusiasm. Wednesday, March 10, 1999 KIM HONEY Science Reporter The Globe & Mail Before men get too pumped up about Viagra, there's something women want them to know. The penis is not the most important member of the family. "The amount of ego that's involved in Viagra is not the same ego that's required by women," said Barrie Chavel, 56, a civil servant at Toronto City Hall. "It's absolutely stupid." Postmenopausal women tended to agree with Ms. Chavel, who expressed dismay at the idea that the drug, just approved for use in Canada, may enable older men to act as randy as a bull. "I just think it's absolutely fascinating," Ms. Chavel said on her way to lunch yesterday. "All the money that's been spent on this huge problem for men that has not necessarily been a problem for women." Oakville urologist Richard Casey, who has counselled many couples on the ups and downs of erectile dysfunction, said men do seem to have a different idea of what constitutes a normal sex drive. "If left up to men, they might say, 'I'd like to have 10 tablets a month.' But his wife might say, 'We'll take two,' " said Dr. Casey, the director of the Male Health Centres. Younger women, of course, have distinct concerns, and they revolve around a different availability problem. "I just want to know if they're going to come out with a pill to turn gay men straight," said Melanie Abbott, co-owner of a Toronto typesetting business. "That's really what a 37-year-old single woman living in Toronto needs. That's the story right there." When asked if she might consider an older man as long as he had a prescription for Viagra, Ms. Abbott said: "There you go. A hard- on and a wallet full of cash." And, in a stunning role reversal, most women believe that impotence is all in the man's head. Rosetta De Filippo, 58, a Toronto translator, recounted the case of an impotent male friend who was miserable in his marriage to a domineering wife. After he left the marriage and met someone new, he came bouncing back to tell her his problem had disappeared. "In his case, I would swear on my life that it was psychological," she said. "That's me. It's kind of indirectly linked to experience." Like most of the women interviewed yesterday, Ms. De Filippo was concerned about side effects of the drug, despite its approval by Health Canada. "As many times as you push that button, sooner or later it's bound to break down if you keep on doing it for too long." Of course, there's no question women don't trust men, particularly potent ones, to con their doctors into filling out a prescription even though the drug manufacturer insists that it won't work on them. Diana Liebs-Benke, 36, a secretary for Nesbitt Burns, said she thought using Viagra to shore up a flagging sex life was rather superficial, given the fact that sexuality is so much more than a biological function. A married mother of a three-year- old, she said it requires an intimacy that involves more than an erection, and perhaps that was something that both men and women needed to tend to. "We get so caught up in our lives, especially when you're married and have children," she said. "As we get older we all wish we could go back and feel the feelings we used to be able to feel." theglobeandmail.com