Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? This may be midweek, but we are in a cheerful mood. And why not? We woke up this morning and noted that we are still here. And so are you. This calls for celebrating with yet another cup of delicious stimulation. We hope you will join us. Meanwhile, there is much to do - meetings and deadlines beckon. So let us all dig in together. Here are some tidbits to get you started. Have a good day and hope you accomplish much...
Taking More Meds Can Mean More Erectile Dysfunction (MSNBC)
Novartis Workers Strike Over Job Cuts (Agence France Presse)
Merck And Kentucky AG Debate Outside Lawyers In Vioxx Suit (Legal Newsline)
Bayer Forecasts $15B In Asia Sales By 2015 (Bloomberg News)
Sex With Animals Tied To Penile Cancer (CBS News)
J&J And Gilead Expand HIV Cocktail Partnership (Associated Press)
More Than 20 Percent Of US Adults Took Mental Health Drugs (Pharma Times)
Defribillator Upgrade May Be A Dud (MSNBC)
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A shocking note from the defibrillator piece:
Dr. Roger D. White, who was on a heart association subcommittee that provided EXPERT ADVICE on automated defibrillators in 2000, put it: "We just assumed that we were going to make a difference." White, an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., added, “What we thought would work, hasn't worked so far."
My observation would be 'so much for expert advice' - at least in this case - "Interviews and documents show that at least three people on the 11-member committee that recommended the in-hospital use of automated defibrillators had ties to device manufacturers"
In light of the above piece, I would suggest that the proprieters of Borden's Dairy Farm lock up Elsie the Cow on the next visitors tour.
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Re:the penile cancer story
um, chickens?
Re: over-the-top use of psych. drugs in this country...just turn on afternoon TV, the women's shows, and you can see a big reason why.
What ever happened to the U.N. Convention on Psychotropics (of 1971), one of the articles of which states that there will be no direct-to-consumer advertising of psychotropic drugs?
Unfortunately the age group for ED meds is the same age group that tends towards polypharmacy. I suggest that they DC all of their other drugs save for their ED meds. They may not survive their sexual encounter, butg at leaat they'll check out on a positive note.
17.5 billion. That's the numbers of doses of psychotropic drugs (assume 1X/day) taken in the US in 2010 per the article.
Far out.