May 28, 2005

Trade Off

Impotence or blindness? unfortunately, that is the choice that some men will be making, whether they are aware of it or not:

Some Viagra users report blindness-Pfizer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Friday said they have received more than 40 reports of a type of blindness in men taking impotence drugs, mostly involving Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has received about 38 reports of the rare condition among users of Viagra, four reports of blindness among users of Eli Lilly and Co.'s Cialis and one report of the condition in men talking Levitra, made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc.

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By a strange coincidence (cough), all of those right-to-enforce our views on others against their will life pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control (because, don'cha know, it could lead to adulterous non-monogamous non-procreating sexual relations between consenting adults - clearly against the laws of nature in the eyes of the religiously insane) have no problem handing out medications that could possibly cause serious problems for those who take them. What's that word again? Hyp-, hypocr-, Publican! Yeah - that's the ticket...

Posted by (: Tom :) at May 28, 2005 07:42 AM