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Search results for "impotence" ...
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Food Safety
This investigation delved into the safety of imported and domestically-produced food and deciciencies in federal oversight of food industry. Reporters found that the FDA inspects only 1% of the imported food it regulates. And during the previous five years, food imports hve risen 50%, btu the number of FDA food inspectors has dropped 20%. The investigation focused in particular of food impoted from China.
Tags: food; imports; FDA; regulation; federal government; consumer health
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"Viagra"
CBS News reported on the concerns about the potential for blindness among Viagra users. Through the Freedom of Information Act they obtained adverse event data and found at least 800 reports of vision problems in a four-year period, including some cases of total blindness. The FDA is considering label changes for Viagra and other impotence drugs.
Tags: ED drugs; impotence; FDA; Viagra; health risks
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Millions for Viagra, pennies for diseases of the poor
Only one percent of all new medicines brought to market by multinational pharmaceutical companies between 1975 and 1997 were designed specifically to treat tropical diseases plaguing the Third World. The reporter investigates out of control profits for drug manufacturers who continue to churn out "lifestyle" drugs, treating canine depression, impotence, baldness, or wrinkles.
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Biological Disaster
The Houston Press finds that a prominent reproductive biologist at Baylor College of Medicine entered into a terminology transfer agreement with her employer and a private biotechnology company. Her "partners" then terminated the agreement, which, unbeknownst to the scientist, granted ownership of her life's work to the company. The company then used the scientist technology to take the company public and raise funds from investors, only to shelve the research and begin marketing a questionable treatment for male impotency. Allegations of fraudulent stock promotion have been made by investors.
Tags: SEC; Securities Exchange Commission; Stocks
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The new era of lifestyle drugs
Business Week talks about Viagra, the impotence treatment, and other similar "lifestyle" drugs. Other pills are on the way to treat minor irritations like baldness and wrinkles.
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The Selling of Impotence
The saga of the latest breakthroughs in impotence treatments shows how the medical establishment may redefine a condition in a way that greatly increases the number of people "afflicted." It shows that Wall Street may adopt hyped statistics to increase markets; how pharmaceuticals companies may recruit influential doctors as consultants until few independent experts remain; how physician's safety concerns about new therapies may remain whispers that the public (and investors) are unlikely to hear. The story deals with the new pharmaceutical treatments for erectile dysfunction.
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National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" discusses the frequent complications that arise with the use of penile implants, which are used to treat impotence; reports that they often require multiple operations to replace malfunctioning parts, can lead to serious infection and can cause chronic pain, but most patients who experience problems say they weren't warned of these potential complications, July 2, 1992.
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Newsweek maps out the activities of the Colombia drug cartels in the United States; shows how and where they do business, who the players are, the U.S. attorneys who represent them, and two countries' impotent efforts to stop the cartels, Nov. 13, 1989.
Tags: Miller Moranthau