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

To: VLAD who wrote (20236)	4/1/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: DaiS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

Vlad, To be fair, I think that both the Kaplan study and the Goldstein and Berman study got some publicity. And there was quite some discussion and argument here on the thread. I actually collected 10-20 abstracts relating to FSD and I can post them in a few weeks if anyone wants (I am away after Easter). My impression from these few studies is that we don't know a lot about FSD. But why not speculate a bit? It appears that there is broad parallel between men and women in that sexual excitement is associated with engorgement of the genitalia with blood. Thus in those women that can get excited, sildenafil will enhance this and the FSD cream (can't remember the winner name) will produce this. In women that don't get excited viagra is not so good (and the first results suggest this). But will the effects produced by the cream, through it's physical effects, help some women to become excited? Then there is this difference between the sexes that relates to the need for many/most women to have some kind of romantic involvement with a single man. Some women do have many partners and some visit male prostitutes, but I still think there is a substantial overall difference between the sexes. In this circumstance, will a good aphrodisiac get a lot of women going...? Viagra is supposed not to help here, but again what will the effect of the cream be? I mentioned before a BBC TV programme on ED. I think there it was Morales who speculated that when men on viagra see and feel their penis swelling there is a good positive feedback. However women can't tell so easily what is going on. Possible that many women will prefer a cream in preference to a pill. So this may play out better for Vivus than male ED. Let's hope that Vivus plan good trials, I'm sure Pfizer will. DaiS