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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mkilloran who wrote (19725)	3/13/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: VLAD	Respond to of 23519

Yes, Applying a little dab of ointment onto the clitoris is really no big deal. I thing any woman in her right mind would prefer this over taking sildenafil systemically and risk possible retinal damage etc.. If Vivus has any brains they will take the ball on this concept and run fast and furious with it. Since Vivus has such limited resources on the management level they need to convince whoever might partner with them that they are sitting on something REAL big. Perhaps Astra already knows how big this whole thing is and they are just waiting for the Astra share holders to vote on the merger March 18th and then if accepted they will have everything finalized in Q2. The new Astra/Zeneca team may look at Vivus more favorably than just the old Astra team especially with this new patent, progress on Alibra and Dr. Christ's progress on gene therapy. IMO the more time that passes now the more valuble Vivus becomes and this was quite the opposite from March 1998 until just recently! Between MUSE, Alibra, a female SD ointment, gene therapy via injection, etc there is a ton of money to be made on Vivus' patents and R&D. Vivus just needs to get into bed with someone big ASAP. Leave it to Leland to screw everything up again. I don't trust the guy and I never will. Although I believe he has something on the front burner he seems to have a perfect track record of failure at management. Don't forget that although we have a lot of promise in Vivus our leader is a mental midget. RT can confirm that if you don't believe me.