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Posted by john on August 26th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
A few months ago I was at a party and, as it reached the early hours of the morning and just I and a few other hard-drinking males remained, I somehow got onto the subject of impotence.
An eerie silence fell over the room and as I related some of my personal experiences with this affliction I half-expected everyone to start laughing. Instead something else happened - whether moved by my own account or by the copious ammounts of alcohol consumed, one by one, each of the men in the room cautiously admitted that they’d also had similar troubles at some point in their lives.
While each of them was careful to make it clear that everything was in working order now, I felt almost like a priest as they confessed their imperfect virility for the very first time.
Impotence and erectile dsyfunction are somewhat taboo topics in the modern world. In a world where sex is the predominant theme of most commerce, entertainment and bar room banter, to admit that you might not be always up to the job is tantamount to doubting your right to exist.
Replacing a fuse and carrying logs is all well and good but the inability to get an erection puts your manhood in serious question. Yet with around 30 million men reporting dsyfunctional erections (and how many more staying quiet?), it’s something that most men face at one time or another.
Impotence vs. ED
To be clear, impotence refers to the inability to get any kind of erection, even during sleep. There can be solid medical reasons for this, including the side-effects of medications (such as anti-depressants, in particular) and in this case it’s definitely worth getting a professional opinion.
Erectile dsyfunction, on the other hand, refers to the inability to get a full erection on demand or losing the erection halfway through sexual intercourse. Talk about frustrating.
A few years ago a girlfriend finally convinced me to give up traveling for a while and move in with her. It seemed like a dream rest cure until after a few days I found that man’s best friend was letting me down and the bed became a torture chamber.
I started going for morning runs to get the blood flowing, adopting a vegetarian diet to make sure my veins weren’t being blocked up by saturated fats and even sneaking a look at the lingerie advertisements in my girlfriend’s fashion magazines in the morning to get me in the mood.
Nothing helped.
In desperation, I spent hours on the Internet researching ancient herbs that purported to help with problems of virility and headed down to the health food shop to see what was on offer. Although pretty poor at the time, I spent most of what meager income I had on packets of Korean ginseng, packets of Ginko Biloba and an African herb called Yohimbe - the latter prompted some promising tingles but caused such palpitations of the heart that I almost called an ambulance.
So much for alternative health, at least on this occasion.
I eventually found a cure but I’m going to make you wait until the end of the article to find out what it was.
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In any case, according to the likes of Pfizer with their best-selling drug, Viagra, impotence and erectile dsyfunction should be a thing of the past. Having isolated the active components that stimulate blood flow to the penis, all our troubles should be over. And Viagra does, in fact, work.
Head to any red light zone in South East Asia and outside the bars and discos where old Americans and Europeans go to pick up girls half their age or less, you’ll see vendors touting Viagra pills alongside cigarettes and chewing gum.
Independent drug manufacturers weren’t slow to realise the potential and for a while Asian-produced copies of Viagra were the No. 1 export item for the average traveler with space in his backpack.
So why is there still any problem? If popping a pill is all it takes we should all be living in a world of great sex and guaranteed erections, right?
Well, aside from the risk of having a heart seizure if you’re prone to any cardiovascular issues, Viagra is a perfect example of the modern world’s urge to treat the symptom and not the cause.
According to Darwin and any scientist who believes that life on this planet has been going on for rather a long time, sex has long been an essential component of evolution. Our bodies are designed to have sex, reproduce and have a good time along the way.
Impotence is rarely a problem amongst animals so why should it be any different with human beings?
Just for fun, yesterday I walked into town to see how often I’d get exposed to sexual imagery in the course of a half an hour walk. I’d barely stepped outside the apartment where I was staying before I saw a billboard where the advertisers had come up with the ingenious strategy of placing a beer bottle next to a rather prominant cleavage. The word “association” becomes redundant.
Then I passed a newspaper stand where there were no less than 7 men’s magazines for sale, each with a super model in a bikini on the cover. They were outnumbered only by the magazines focusing on cars and motorbikes and all but one of them again had a girl in a bikini sprawled on top of the hood.
Just as I was about to conclude that drinking and driving really is all it takes to get laid, a car passed playing Snoop Dogg’s rap about turning a girl into his sex slave. Damn, you need to be a gangsta rapper, too.
In any case, you don’t need me to let you know that sex is a more likely candidate to make the world go round than love but it is striking how little we really understand it.
If we were to go by the lyrics of the songs in the charts and the passionate scenes that we see in Hollywood flicks, sex would seem something like a performance or a contest between two highly-skilled opponents.
Devastating looks are a prerequisite to good sex, it would seem, and the whole deal is to give maximum performance, conquer your opponent and generally score lots of points in the arena of the bedroom.
Small wonder that so many people find real sex to be so utterly bewildering, challenging and utterly out of their depths. But instead of rushing to pop a pill, you could pause to go a little deeper into the mysteries of physical intimacy and burst some of the sex myths that are so abundant in our society.
These myths are hardly ever challenged as, whilst we pride ourselves in living in a free, open-minded country, most people are far too embarrassed to ever talk about it.
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Posted by john on August 19th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
AIDS Healthcare Foundation - Critical of Drug Ads Including Pfizer’s Latest ‘Viva Viagra’ Campaign - Calls on FDA to Increase Oversight of Out-of-Control Drug Industry to Rein In Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs and to Protect the Public’s Health
LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US’ largest HIV/AIDS healthcare provider, once again denounced direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising by the pharmaceutical industry after an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed not only an astronomical 330% increase in spending on drug ads over the past ten years ($11.4B up to $29.9B), but also the fact that — despite the industry’s own recommendation to delay ads for new drugs — most drug company ad campaigns for the most heavily promoted drugs begin within a year after FDA approval. “A Decade of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs,” (NEJM, August 16, 2007, Julia M. Donohue, Ph.D., Marisa Cevasco, B.A., and Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.) also concludes that despite the more than tripling of DTC ad spending, regulation of the industry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has grown weaker, instead of stronger. This, despite the fact that the drug industry and the FDA have come under fire over major missteps such as the Vioxx debacle and others in which heavily advertised drugs have turned out to have serious, unknown health risks.
“When it comes to direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, AHF believes that the only ads that are truly useful to consumers without carrying potential for harm are ‘help-seeking’ ads — ads that educate the public about a specific medical condition for which treatment is available, without highlighting a specific drug or brand,” said Dr. Homayoon Khanlou, AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Chief of Medicine, U.S. “Patients are strongly influenced by advertising and often come in to a doctor’s office asking for a drug that may or may not be right for them. The increased advertising referred to in the New England Journal of Medicine article interferes in the relationship between doctor and patient. Particularly after the Vioxx scandal, the FDA should be doing more to protect the public from the potential overuse — and potential harm — that could result from heavily promoting new drugs.”
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation has long been against direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs believing that not only does it improperly interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, but also that such advertising contributes to skyrocketing healthcare costs and poses a serious risk to public health and safety. AHF’s most recent campaign targets Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, for its marketing of Viagra, pointing to recent marketing campaigns such as a series of holiday-themed print ads and, most recently, the ‘Viva Viagra’ campaign which, they say, promote unsafe sex by marketing the drug as a ‘party drug’ encouraging its recreational use. The NEJM article concludes that most DTC spending is focused on a small number of “blockbuster” drugs used to treat chronic conditions. The article lists Viagra among the top twenty most heavily advertised pharmaceutical products with $80 million spent in 2005.
“The advertising for Viagra is so successful, it has become a household name. Commercials such as the recent ‘Viva Viagra’ ads, which associate Viagra with the party image of Las Vegas, normalize the drug to such a degree that it is no longer seen as a treatment for a medical condition. Unfortunately, physicians like myself continue to see an increase in the use of Viagra in conjunction with recreational drugs such as crystal meth, particularly among men who have sex with men. The use of this dangerous cocktail is a significant contributing factor to increases we are seeing in sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and HIV,” added Dr. Khanlou. “Again, where is the FDA?”
Despite the major increase in drug industry spending on DTC, the number of regulatory actions taken by the FDA in the past ten years has decreased dramatically. According to the study, “A second indication of weakening FDA oversight of direct-to-consumer advertising in recent years is that the number of staff members who are dedicated to reviewing advertisements has remained relatively stable, whereas the use of such advertising has grown substantially. In 2002, three FDA staff members were dedicated to reviewing direct-to-consumer advertisements. In 2004, four staffers were reviewing such advertisements, even though spending on this form of advertising (and probably the volume of ads to review) had increased by 45%, from $2.9 billion to $4.2 billion.”
“Four FDA staff members to review thousands upon thousands of drug ads is irresponsible,” said Timothy Boyd, AHF’s Policy Research Coordinator. “This study makes clear that without action from the FDA the drug industry is incapable of self-regulation. AHF has repeatedly communicated with the FDA urging the government body to step up its regulatory role in drug industry advertising — to no avail. Once again, we ask the FDA to step up its oversight of drug marketing. It is the public’s health that’s at stake.”
The article goes on to conclude that despite a recent study of drug safety by the Institute of Medicine, as well as a recommendation from the industry trade and lobbying group, PhRMA, that advertising for new drugs should be delayed, “Our data show that a mandatory waiting period on advertising for new drugs would represent a dramatic departure from current industry practices.”
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Posted by john on August 15th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
There’s a story going around that Lisa Marie Presley isn’t too happy with that new commercial in which a bunch of guys jam on “Viva Viagra,’ to the tune of her father’s song “Viva Las Vegas.”
But even if Elvis wasn’t your dad, there is still something innately creepy about all those ads for Viagra, Cialis and whatever other ED meds there are out there.
Take the “Viva Viagra” ad. These 40- and 50-somethings are so happy about their magic pills that instead of just keeping their joy to themselves, they have to sing about it. Then, after they finish the song (and the announcer finishes his warning about when to call the doctor), they speed away in their requisite guys-over-40 dream machines, in search of someone with whom to share the joys of those little blue pills.
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The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has categorized the ad as “reckless,” saying that Viagra’s manufacturer Pfizer is encouraging the use of the medication as a “party drug,” and thereby increasing the risk of exposure to STDs and HIV.
But even when the ads aren’t as blatant as that one, they still convey a bit of an “ick” factor.
Like the one in which Grandma and Grandpa can’t wait until the kids and grandkids, who’ve come over to show off their new puppy, go home so they can hit the bedroom.
And what’s with the bathtubs? One brand of medicine always shows a couple in separate, clawfoot tubs — which are always in an inopportune spot, like on dock by a lake.
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Posted by john on August 10th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
Heavens, what a stench! Is it fish bait? Obscene amounts of money? Or just the not-so-sweet smell of a decomposing marriage?
Whatever, it makes bystanders gag. Chris Tarrant must always have known that cheating on your wife can be a messy business, but even he can’t have been prepared for this.
Last September, as “discussions” about his imminent divorce settlement got under way, he learned that his ex-wife Ingrid - furious to discover that he had been cheating on her for half their marriage - wanted 30 per cent of his estimated £34 million fortune.
Ouch, perhaps - but it could have been worse. By rights, Ingrid could have demanded 50 per cent and argued her case in court.
Still, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host Tarrant - notoriously canny with his own money - was irked. He said 20 per cent was his final answer, so to speak.
Ingrid was incandescent - and the fighting between them has grown bloodier with each passing day.
Indeed, Chris Tarrant must be asking himself why he didn’t just open his wallet and give his ex the lot.
First, there was mutual sniping, conducted through the gossip pages, about exactly who was responsible for the marriage break-up.
Ingrid told “friends” she was distraught and in despair over her husband’s shenanigans with Fiona McKechnie, a charity organiser.
Chris confided - to more “friends” - that he felt he had been pushed into a meaningless fling with another woman (albeit a fling that lasted seven years) because his own wife had withheld sex.
There was much public bickering over money, with Tarrant’s aides claiming Ingrid was simply greedy.
What did she want with a huge mansion, they asked, when it was just her and her youngest son? Tarrant, just as predictably, was painted as a skinflint.
But yesterday the stakes were upped - rather spectacularly, it has to be said.
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In a interview splashed over the pages of a downmarket tabloid, Ingrid let rip, accusing her ex of physically attacking her, and of him being habitually cruel during their 15-year marriage.
She poured scorn on her husband’s love-making skills, claiming that he was “clumsy and na’ve in bed” and had relied on Viagra for four years because he “couldn’t get it up”.
She went into excruciating detail about Tarrant’s sexual problems, revealing that he had suffered a groin injury some years before while “larking around” with their son Toby.
She described how, a year or so later, Tarrant started having problems getting an erection, and claimed that Toby had damaged his manhood.
Sex was off the menu for some six months and a minor operation was eventually carried out.
But Ingrid believes he was psychologically scarred by the experience.
“My husband has always had a kind of mythical belief in his own sexuality,” she said.
“He prides himself on his manhood and loves to think of himself as a legend in his own trouser legs.
“But the truth is that I didn’t go off sex. He did.”
There was a time, conceded Ingrid, that she herself could not have full sex because of an ovary problem.
She made sure she satisfied her husband, however - and again doesn’t mind telling the world about the lengths to which she went to do so when on occasion he clearly disgusted her.
“I did understand that Chris, like all men, needed the physical release.
“So I always tried to satisfy him in every way I could, even when I found myself repulsed by him.”
When she found a packet of Viagra in the bin, Ingrid at first thought it must belong to her son Dexter.
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Posted by john on July 29th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
Richard Branson is always reaching for something, whether it’s setting records in stratospheric balloon flights or racing across the Atlantic - pursuits that have nearly killed him, more than once.
“There were a number of occasions where, you know, I shouldn’t have come back and I came back once to a full-page ad by Virgin Atlantic saying, ‘You know, look Richard, we have an airline, why don’t you use it?’” he told “Early Show” co-anchor Harry Smith.
But Branson has never done things the conventional way. He is usually striving for something just beyond his grasp - and, win or lose, he always comes up smiling.
Now he has another flag to plant. On Aug. 8, Branson’s newest company, Virgin America, takes to the skies over the United States.
But his latest venture may be his most audacious. On July 18 - his and Nelson Mandela’s shared birthday - they announced the formation of a Council of Elders, a group of seasoned world leaders who literally will try to solve the world’s problems.
“You only live once,” he said. “You might as well throw yourself into life and enjoy it.”
His brands, Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, Virgin everything - have made Branson a billionaire. He lives on his own island - Necker Island, on the eastern edge of the British Virgin Islands - where he has taken the good life and re-imagined it his way.
“The Atlantic’s this way, the Caribbean’s that way, we’re surrounded by this beautiful reef the whole way round the island,” he said.
Necker Island is both paradise and profit center. When Sir Richard isn’t here, he rents the place out for $47,000 a night. It’s a paradise built by pop music. Branson likes to say that every time Virgin Records has a hit, he would build something and say the artist paid for it.
“Boy George paid for the grounds, and Johnny Rotten paid for that … and Janet Jackson planted that tree,” he said
These days, at age 57, Branson’s preoccupations seem to have more to do with saving the world than conquering it. Being in the airline and train business, Branson says he has helped contribute to environmental degradation. But now he hopes to help repair the world.
“For a while, I hoped the skeptics were right. But I read a lot, and met a lot of scientists, and realized the world had a real problem,” Branson said.
He bought the island right next door to Necker, and there he plans to build the world’s best eco-tourism resort. He is offering a $25 million prize for anyone who comes up with an invention that can rid the atmosphere of carbon gases, and he has pledged to spend all the profits from his airlines - that’s $3 billion or so - to develop earth-friendly alternative fuels. But it’s not all about being altruistic.
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“We’ve never said there is a charitable, you know, motive. I mean, you take on the oil companies and the coal companies as a charity, you’re going to remain a charity and you’re gonna disappear,” he said. “What we’re hoping to do is actually come up with an alternative fuel that will shake the very foundations of the oil companies and shake the foundations of the coal companies - because if we don’t shake their foundations, the world could potentially be doomed.”
The story of Branson’s journey from dyslexic high school dropout to one of the richest, most successful men in the world is well known in his native Great Britain. He has been voted one of history’ 100 greatest Britons and one of 100 people the British most love to hate. When he was just a teenager, his school headmaster said he would either become a multimillionaire or go to prison.
First came a magazine called Student, then a discount record business that eventually turned into a record label. The first release was “Tubular Bells,” by a shy, unknown musician named Mike Oldfield.
“It was literally, no one wanted it,” Branson said.
“Tubular Bells,” the record no one wanted, became the theme for “The Exorcist” and sold 5 million copies. Branson was on his way with a country estate and a houseboat on the Thames.
In 1984, Branson made his biggest reach to date - into the sky and over to America. Virgin Atlantic would compete with TWA, Pan Am, and British Airways.
“I love to go after giants,” Branson said. “I mean, that’s what’s the most fun, you know. It’s exciting to see whether you could go in there and make a real difference and create something that, you know, why didn’t those giants do that before? You know, why has it taken, you know, upstart Virgin to shake up this industry?”
But the success of Virgin Atlantic cost Branson dearly. At one point he had to sell his record company.
“It was tough selling the record company; it was in the thick of British Airways trying to put us out of business,” he said. “We needed resources to protect the airline, yet the record company was my baby. We had just signed the Rolling Stones. I just signed Janet Jackson. We had Genesis. We had Peter Gabriel. We had wonderful bands and we had a wonderful group of staff. I remember that morning, I got this check for a $1 billion, which is a lot of money in those days, and a lot of money today. … I was running down the street with $1 billion in my pocket and I was crying. I had tears streaming down my face.”
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Posted by john on July 25th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
Three years after the FDA yanked its “Wild Thing” ads off the air, Pfizer is again taking a playful approach with a Viagra TV spot riffing on the Elvis hit “Viva Las Vegas.” And this time, they got the agency’s OK in advance.
The 60-second spot by McCann Erickson, which debuted on last night’s NBC Nightly News, features a band of forty- and fiftysomething-looking men at a roadhouse bar playing “Viva Viagra.”
As the narrator wraps up the risk information and the band delivers the chorus, one of them is shown roaring off on a motorcycle.
Pfizer said the buoyant spot tested better than ads focusing more on the disease. “The goal of these ads is to take that upbeat tone and positive approach and motivate men to engage in dialogue with their physicians,” said Pfizer spokesman Francisco Gebauer. “It’s extremely motivating.” Forty percent more, to be precise, than the more reserved spots Pfizer tested it against.
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The ads drew immediate fire from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has waged a campaign against Pfizer for what it alleges are efforts to promote the drug for recreational use. “Pfizer has always been committed to the appropriate use of Viagra,” said Gebauer. “That’s why we always encourage men to see their physicians.”
Print ads complementing the TV spots will follow later in the year.
In November, 2004, the FDA, under fire for its handling of the recently-withdrawn Vioxx, ordered Pfizer to pull a spot that showed a couple of a certain age lingerie shopping and asked: “Remember that guy they used to call ‘Wild Thing?’” The agency said the spot, in which animated blue horns sprout from the man’s salt-and-pepper head, falsely suggested that the drug could restore users to a youthful state of arousal and vigor.
Since then, Pfizer has run more circumspect work, including an unbranded TV campaign featuring sexpert Dr. Drew Pinsky that launched in late 2005 and a May 2006 branded spot, dubbed “Sports Recording,” offsetting the obligatory frisky couple with a white-coated doctor deadpanning risk information.
Viagra continues to command more than half the US market for ED treatments, but Pfizer has seen its share eroded by newer drugs – particularly Lilly’s Cialis. Viagra boasted 56.6% of the US market for the first nine months of 2006, according to IMS Health, while Cialis boasted 27% and Levitra had 13.3%. Pfizer says there’s plenty of room for growth in the category, pointing to studies showing that half of men over 40 suffer from ED. But Viagra sales have been flat, while Cialis and Levitra are posting solid sales growth.
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Posted by john on July 22nd, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
Your article Viagravation (Magazine, last week) highlights the abuse of a drug which was never intended by the Federal Drug Administration for sexual enhancement but for bona fide erectile dysfunction (ED). As an endocrinologist I see more than 300 men with ED a year and some can become psychologically dependent on these drugs. If given for psychogenic ED, treatment must include sex therapy with a counsellor.
If 30%-40% of men have ED as they age, the figure of 27m men worldwide using Viagra is conservative, as estimates put ED worldwide at 150m. In one example quoted, the man used Viagra obtained from a friend who had a valid reason for using it. However if doctors prescribe it for enhancement or men use it to “shag all night”, shame on them. There certainly are psychological and relationship downsides to this sort of abuse.
Dr Andre Guay Peabody, Massachusetts, USA
STOP TAKING THE PILLS: What an excellent article about Viagra, which reflected both male and female points of view and the growing drug dependency culture. There is neverending pressure to live up to someone else’s dream and that, combined with the propensity for instant pleasure, will push our society further towards the drug culture. Slim pills, happy pills, sex pills. It’s time to think seriously about where this is going.
Simon Husain, Southampton
MORE HELP FOR WOMEN: Women can also get physical arousal disorder, the difficulty that causes erection problems in men. However, until the research is carried out in women, this drug is not available to them except from unlicensed practitioners.
Secondly the more common disorder in women, “lack of desire”, can be due to a hormonal problem, as it often is in men. There is now a physical treatment for surgically menopausal women, which is of great value to this group.
Sexual problems are often secret, embarrassing and relationship damaging in many couples.
Just because there is some misuse of this useful medication (which also occurs with other drugs) does not in any way decrease the value of it for those who suffer and are currently excluded.
Ruth Hallam-Jones Psychotherapist, Sheffield
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COUPLES MUST DECIDE: If you decide to take Viagra you have two choices: either, you don’t tell your partner and allow her to enjoy the experience (but she may well find out in due course), or you tell her but then run the risk she may feel it is “the Viagra doing the loving” and not you.
You could lose out either way. So it’s best to discuss it first and not make the decision alone.
Michael Parsons, London NW6
LACK OF DESIRE: As a woman, I’m just happy to know that my lack of interest in sex is not abnormal. The pressure to “enjoy” sex is unbelievable; we’re hit from all angles about sex. So now I know that half of women couldn’t care less about sex either, I can relax. Sadly, it’s a man’s world. Thanks for a humorous, informative piece on this annoying “wonder drug” - for men.
Name withheld, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
FLAWED INTELLIGENCE: My view of the British as subtly understated was jarred when John Carey labelled me “violently prejudiced” in a review of my book, IQ: The Brilliant Idea that Failed (Books, Culture, July 
. The phrase brings to mind cross-burning and Ku Klux Klan members, c 1951. I promise, I’ve never lynched a psychologist.
Worse were Carey’s misstatements of my beliefs. “[Murdoch] hates intelligence tests and abominates psychologists for inventing them.” On the contrary, I think IQ tests were a brilliant invention that can still be useful today. They beat nepotism, can be useful screening devices for employers and are a vast improvement over previous - if pleasingly wacky - Victorian methods. The problem is, IQ tests don’t measure intelligence, as psychology has claimed for the past century. This puffery has enabled terrible eugenic practices, such as coerced sexual sterilisation and murder, and damaging education policy, by barring perfectly capable students from learning at the highest levels.
A little humility on psychology’s part about what its exams can and can’t do is in order, as well as recognition that overselling IQ tests can rationalise disastrous policy.
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Posted by john on July 17th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
First, let me make one thing perfectly clear: This is NOT a problem for me.
At least I don’t think it is.
I don’t have … uh … OK. Let’s just say I don’t need no stinkin’ Viagra. Or Levitra. Or Cialis.
(This is where Austin Powers would add a “Yeeeah baby.”)
Whew. That was tough.
You know how it is for us guys. We’re quick with the wink and nod, and the puffed-up chest. Not so great with the information and straight talk.
Which I suppose is why Spirit of Women (spiritof
women.com), a coalition with headquarters in Boca Raton, is taking on the issue of low testosterone in middle-aged men.
They call it Low T.
Funny how people come up with cute little phrases when it comes to issues of sexuality. As if we’re all 15 again and struggling to stifle a snicker.
“That’s what Spirit of Women does,” said Tanya Abreu, president of the health network. “It takes on a lot of issues that people don’t want to talk about.”
Spirit of Women has partnerships with hospitals in 70 cities, including Boca Raton Community Hospital, to advance women’s health. And often, that means men’s health.
The group commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct a survey about, uh, this issue. Harris contacted 2,008 women older than 30 who’ve been in a romantic relationship with a man for at least three years.
Only 43 of the women said their partners had been diagnosed with Low T. And 968 said they displayed the symptoms, such as decreased libido and weak erections.
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A little less than half — 997 — said their partners did not display the symptoms. Which, considering those include low energy, depression, grumpiness and irritability (uh-oh), makes me think they were either lying, pumping their partners with Prozac, or living with a candidate for canonization.
Not surprisingly, the survey determined that Low T affects both people in a relationship. What was surprising is the extent of the impact.
“What struck me about the survey was the depth of concern the women had, not so much about sexual issues, but for the quality of emotional life of their partner,” Abreu said.
About three-quarters of women whose partners had symptoms or had been diagnosed with Low T said they had less physical intimacy, which you’d expect. But half also said that their communication suffered and that they felt lonelier as a result.
Of those whose partner had been diagnosed with Low T, just over half said they were satisfied with their pre-diagnosis relationship. After diagnosis and treatment, the number skyrocketed to 81 percent.
But it’s not just about feeling, uh, chipper and getting along with your partner. Research by the University of California at San Diego found that in men 50 and older, Low T resulted in a 33 percent greater risk of death. It’s believed that 5 million American men have Low T.
So, you might ask, why did it fall on a women’s group to bring this issue to light?
“Let me tell you, I think there’s something to the notion that men are genetically predisposed to be the hunters and women are genetically predisposed to be the gatherers,” Abreu said. “I believe that’s why women gather the information and make 85 percent of the medical decisions in our society.
“People ask me, ‘Why isn’t there a Spirit of Men?’” Abreu continued. “Men don’t come to meetings. Women are the gatekeepers to family health. And not just for children. A study once found that men who suffered acute heart attacks often called their wives before they called 911.”
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Posted by john on July 9th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y., July 09, 2007 /PRNewswire/ — An analysis of hundreds of thousands of online searches for drug prices made on the website PharmacyChecker.com (
this year found that drugs for erectile dysfunction (ED) were among those most often checked. In fact, all three major ED drugs, Viagra (Pfizer), Cialis (Lilly), and Levitra (GSK/Bayer), ranked in the top 10 out of nearly 9,000 medications for which consumers searched.
Although savings of up to 40% are possible by shopping online for ED drugs, even greater savings, about 66% on average, is available for most other popular brand name drugs. PharmacyChecker.com’s president, Tod Cooperman, MD, speculated, “The amazing popularity of the ED drugs in online searches is probably driven by a combination of factors. First, these are among the most expensive pills to buy - about $10 to $16 each - but are often not covered by insurance, so it’s very worthwhile to price-comparison shop. Second, the anonymity offered by the web spares the embarrassment some men feel going into their local pharmacy to check prices and purchase ED products.”
After drugs for erectile dysfunction, cholesterol-lowering products were the most searched drugs, with Lipitor leading the group as it has since 2004.
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Some of the biggest changes in search popularity since last year were seen with Levitra, which moved to 8th position from 26th, Propecia (Merck) a hair- growth drug, which moved up to 7th position from 16th, and Lexapro (Forrest), which moved from 15th to 10th to became the most searched for anti-depressant, replacing Zoloft (Pfizer) which was ranked 6th last year and is now 13th. No generic drug made the top 10, but fluoxetine (the generic form of Prozac) was number 12.
Despite many recent news reports about controlled substances being sold online, only one controlled substance was in the top 50 most searched drugs — Ambien (Sanofi Aventis). It ranked number 44, down from 35 in 2006. The next most searched controlled substance was the diet drug Phentermine, ranked 53 this year, moving up from 83 in 2006.
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Posted by john on July 6th, 2007 — in Levitra Top News
More than half the men less than 20 years old polled used Viagra Cialis and Levitra Impotence drugs for erectile dysfunction (ED) prevention.
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Viagra Cialis Levitra users who took the quiz were presented the question: “How Old Are You?”
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Doctors are seeing an increase in the number of younger men asking for Viagra Cialis and Levitra pills.
Men simply want to be impressed with how they function or want to find arousal and excitement in a pill. Experts say that some of these men suffer from unrealistic expectations about performance or are masking more deep-rooted problems, such as relationship conflict, poor self-image or drug addiction. Urologists warn that some men who don’t need the medication might develop a psychological dependency. And the long-term effects are still unknown.
With impotence pills easily available through the Internet, a primary-care physician, typically grants requests for them so he can supervise their use and educate his patients about the risks. He is also afraid some men may not use a condom if denied a prescription for ED drugs. In an era of safe sex, the condom takes away some of the sensation, and if you want to encourage safe sex, erectile dysfunction pills can help that.
Some doctors also say that mixing impotence pills with mind-altering drugs, such as Ecstasy or crystal methamphetamine, is on the rise - and a potentially deadly combination. A UCLA sex therapist, said that Viagra has become a staple at popular “rave” parties in the gay community, known as “circuit parties.”
A study of 844 men at a San Francisco STD clinic found that ED pill users had had an average of 5.4 sexual partners during the past two months, compared with 3.5 partners for non-ED pill users. The study also found that more than half the men using a ED drug had obtained it through a friend, not a doctor.
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