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2006-05-02 22:06:50
Levitra, Viagra Launch New Ad Campaigns (AP) NEW YORK Sex sells, yet the racy ads that introduced erectile dysfunction drugs were more successful at raising public outrage than sales. Levitra and Viagra now have new campaigns that forego the provocative in favor of depicting erectile dysfunction as a medical condition, not simply a lifestyle concern. The commercials are a recognition of the prior approach's failure to expand the market, as well new guidelines adopted by the industry in January to address critics' concerns and improve ads' accuracy. Viagra's new ad, launched on Monday, leads with a frisky couple, then a doctor surfaces to explain the drug's risk and benefits. Levitra's commercials, which have been airing since March, focus on how diabetes and high blood pressure can lead to erectile dysfunction. Meanwhile, a Cialis campaign started in January but it similar to earlier efforts focused on its ability to last for 36 hours. The more clinical approach has won kudos from some ...
2006-05-03 07:31:54
... enical, because it has been linked to causing pre-cancerous tumors in rats.Gallup, NM (PRWEB) May 3, 2006 -- Roche Holding AG's prescription diet drug Xenical should immediately be pulled from the US market after recent data linked it to pre-cancerous colon lesions in animal studies, a consumer group told federal health regulators on Monday. Public Citizen, in a petition, also asked the US Food and Drug Administration to reject making the weight-loss pill widely available over the counter. On Friday, the FDA said it granted GlaxoSmithKline Plc ...
2006-05-03 12:00:00
... the US market after recent data linked it to pre-cancerous colon lesions in animal studies, a consumer group told federal health regulators on Monday. ADVERTISEMENTPublic Citizen, in a petition, also asked the US Food and Drug Administration to reject making the weight-loss pill widely available over the counter. On Friday, the FDA said it granted GlaxoSmithKline Plc conditional approval to sell the drug without a prescription if it first meets certain undisclosed criteria. Glaxo owns US rights for non-prescription sales of Xenical."The failur ...
2006-05-04 07:18:31
Solutions for Erectile Dysfunction -- ThirdAge Solutions for Erectile Dysfunction Surprise: Sex Is Good for You! Did you know that having sex helps you shed weight, ward off colds, and avert heart disease and depression? go> By Jed Diamond QUESTION: I am 59 years old and have abused alcohol for most of my life. I have erectile dysfunction (ED), and my doctor put me on Viagra and then on generic Levitra. Neither seemed to work very well. I requested that my doctor do a testosterone blood-level check, but he si ...
2006-05-04 22:10:52
Pfizer Unveils Next Generation Viagra TV Spot Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Advanced | Help BRANDWEEK WEB SAVE | EMAIL | PRINT | MOST POPULAR | RSS | REPRINTS Pfizer Unveils Next Generation Viagra TV Spot May 04, 2006 NEW YORK Pfizer began rolling out a new series of spots for its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra this week, focusing not only on the products efficacy, but also including alternative treatment language. One spot, from McCann Erickson in New York, opens with a couple sitting by a TV watching a baseball game, but its obvious the woman in the room has other things on her mind. As she heads upstairs, her body language makes it clear shed welcome her companions company. A voiceover observes, They say in life theres only room for one great passion unless youre really clever. The man then grabs a videotape, starts recording the game he was watching, and then presumably heads upstairs as well. The spot then cuts to a doctor touting Viagra, but who also mentions Viagra is one of several ED treatments you and your doctor ...
2006-05-05 11:05:15
FOXNews.com - EU: Asparteme Sweetener Doesn't Raise Cancer Risk - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News FOX&Friends|Daytime|YourWorld|BigStory|SpecialReport|FOXReport|O'ReillyFactor|Hannity&Colmes|OnTheRecord|WeekendTODAY'STOPNEWS::BUSINESS::OPINION::FNCTV::RADIO::FOXFAN::SERVICES::VIDEO SEARCH E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY FOXFAN CENTRAL FOXNEWS.COM HOME > HEALTH EU: Asparteme Sweetener Doesn't Raise Cancer Risk Friday, May 05, 2006 ROME The popular diet sweetener aspartame won another round in the safety debate when a European panel ...
2006-05-05 18:08:06
ICOS Up As 1Q Beats Street on Cialis: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Make Yahoo! your home page Sign InNew User?Sign UpFinance Home - Help HomeInvestingNews & CommentaryRetirement & PlanningBanking & CreditLoansTaxesSpecial EditionsColumnistsPersonal FinanceInvesting IdeasMarketsCompany FinancesProvidersGet QuotesSymbol LookupFinance Search AP ICOS Up As 1Q Beats Street on CialisFriday May 5, 2:08 pm ET ICOS Rosy Impotence Drug Forecast Excites Investors, Elicits Yawns From Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of ICOS Corp. surged Friday despite a lack of analyst fanfare as the biotech drug maker forecast a slightly improved outlook for the year after its first-quarter results beat Wall Street estimates. ADVERTISEMENT ICOS shares rose $1.77, or 8.4 percent, to $22.82 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq at nearly double their average volume. Shares have traded between $20.02 and $30.66 over the past 52 weeks.Late Thursday, ICOS reported a loss of 653,000, or 1 cent per share, versus a prior-year ...
2006-05-05 22:13:11
"It provides a specific three-dimensional arrangement which serves as a platform for developing all of the features of the final drug," he explains. Of course, transferring a process from the sheltered environment of the university lab to the reality of an industrial site is not easy, and Professor Corey accepts that. But the catalyst that makes the whole approach possible is almost identical to one already widely used to make the asthma treatment Advair - one of GlaxoSmithKline's top selling ...
2006-05-06 16:06:54
Scientist seeks quicker Tamiflu ISLAMABAD, May 6 (APP): A Nobel laureate has devised a new way to make the anti-flu drug Tamiflu that is simpler and quicker than the process employed to produce it right now. Elias Corey's hope is that his novel approach will mean the drug is cheaper to manufacture and more plentiful,BBC TV reported. Tamiflu is the anti-viral drug of choice in the world preparations for possible pandemic flu. The Swiss manufacturer Roche has given the World Health Organization five million courses of tr ...
2006-05-07 09:56:03
... cs in numbers that give the lie to the adage that impotence is reserved for the old (Bob Dole) or crazy (Jack Nicholson in "Carnal Knowledge")...Tags: health | health news | sexual health | men's health | erectile dysfunction→ More here...
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