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China says it passes tougher food regulations, busts sellers of fake bird flu drugs, Viagra

July 26, 2007

China announced Wednesday that is strengthening its food safety regulations in the wake of discoveries of toxic chemicals that prompted a slew of international bans and recalls on its exports.

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New ‘Viva Viagra’ ads echo Elvis

July 25, 2007

Pfizer Inc. is singing a new tune when it comes to reviving sales of its impotence pill Viagra.

Pfizer will begin airing new TV ads today that feature a band of men in their 40s and 50s singing “Viva Viagra” to the tune of Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas.” The first ad, an attempt to make men less embarrassed about the disorder, will run during the NBC Nightly News, the company said.

Pfizer is struggling to boost sales of Viagra, which have fallen 11 percent to $1.7 billion since 2003, when Eli Lilly & Co.’s Cialis and Bayer AG’s Levitra became available. Pfizer, based in New York, says there’s still room for the market to grow because as few as 10 percent of the 33 million men in the U.S. with erectile dysfunction are treating the condition.

“This disease is very stigmatized and there are a lot of misperceptions,” said Ponni Subbiah, Pfizer’s medical director for Viagra. “Men are very willing to talk to their doctors about back pain or injuries, but not ED.”

Pfizer’s shares rose 37 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $25.27 at 12:15 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares have gained 4.5 percent in the past 12 months before today.

Sales of Viagra, which costs $10 a pill, rose 1 percent to $1.7 billion last year, while revenue from Eli Lilly’s rival Cialis gained 30 percent to $971 million, the companies reported. Pfizer spent $95 million on Viagra advertising last year, 61 percent more than Lilly, according to data from market research firm Nielsen Monitor-Plus.

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The new ads will run during programming where 90 percent of viewers are adults. Pfizer declined to comment on how frequently the ads will run or how much it’s spending on the campaign.

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In a break from past Viagra advertising — which had spokesmen such as former senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole and television sex expert Dr. Drew Pinsky — this ad features middle-aged men playing guitars and driving motorcycles and vintage cars.

Advocacy groups and U.S. officials have criticized Pfizer in the past for its Viagra marketing tactics. The company had to pull a Viagra ad in 2004 that featured a man who grew devil horns when he walked past a lingerie store in a shopping mall. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the ads were misleading and didn’t properly warn of the risks.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which runs 14 AIDS clinics in the U.S. and seven pharmacies, sued Pfizer in February claiming its Viagra marketing encourages recreational sex that can increase the risk of users getting the HIV virus. The lawsuit was dismissed, said Michael Weinstein, the president of the foundation.

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“Pfizer has been an outlier in shamelessly promoting Viagra as a party drug,” Weinstein said. “All those Sin City references, everything associated with Vegas, that is what they want the association to be. It’s not about a medical condition, it’s about performance anxiety.”

His group met with the FDA to express their concern about Viagra ads in the past, he said.

Pfizer is also studying new formulations and a possible non-prescription version of the drug that could increase usage, said Subbiah, who declined to comment on specific research projects. When Viagra came on the market in 1998 it quickly became one of Pfizer’s most successful products, helping the company become the world’s largest drugmaker.

Pfizer is racing to increase sales of its existing drugs with new television ads in an attempt to help replace some of the $21 billion in annual revenue it is at risk of losing by 2011 to generic competition.

Pfizer revived advertising for its painkiller Celebrex in April after a two-year hiatus following a recall of a similar drug, Merck & Co.’s Vioxx. This month it also began airing television ads for Exubera, an inhaled form of insulin that the company says has had disappointing sales since it came on the market last year.

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You’ve got mail - all you need is a way to get rid of it

July 21, 2007

You can’, my mother used to say, ‘have too much of a good thing’. Since she was generally not in favour of good things (which she equated with self-indulgence), I habitually disregarded this advice. But I am now beginning to wonder if she may have been right after all. This thought is sparked by an inspection of my email system. I have 852 messages in my ‘office’ inbox. Correction, make that 854: two more came in while I was typing that last sentence. My personal inbox has 1,304 messages. My spam-blocking service tells me that, in the past 30 days, I received no fewer than 3,920 invitations to: enhance my, er, physique; invest in dodgy shares; send money to the deserving widows of Nigerian dictators; and purchase Viagra. I am - literally - drowning in email.

And I am not alone. Everyone I know is feeling the same. In the New York Times the other day, Nora Ephron, the novelist and screenwriter (and the director of You’ve Got Mail), wrote a witty piece on ‘The Six Ages of Email’. They are: infatuation, clarification, confusion, disenchantment, accommodation and death. I particularly like her description of the ‘clarification’ phase. ‘It takes five seconds to accomplish in an email message something that takes five minutes on the telephone. The phone requires you to converse, to say things like hello and goodbye, to pretend to some semblance of interest in the person on the other end of the line. Worst of all, the phone occasionally forces you to make actual plans with the people you talk to - even if you have no desire whatsoever to see them. No danger of that with email.’

If I took it seriously, I could spend all day dealing with my email and never do any actual work. Which is why, increasingly, I tend to ignore my inboxes. This may seem discourteous, but in fact it isn’t - because much of ‘my’ email isn’t actually aimed primarily at me at all. I am just one of the people who is cc’d on the correspondence. In other words, people who are communicating with one another have added me as a kind of bystander. Their motives for doing this are varied. In some cases they are doing me a courtesy, or trying to persuade me that they’re not doing things behind my back. (Little do they know that I couldn’t care less.) In other cases, they are simply being lazy or covering their arses in case anything goes wrong, at which point they will say that I was ‘kept in the loop’ and accordingly must share some of the blame.

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The problem is not with email as such, but with the way organisations have subverted - or perverted - it for bureaucratic purposes. And they have done it for the same reason that spammers have perverted personal email: because it’s cheap and easy to do. In the old days, big organisations had massive internal mail systems, with post-rooms and messengers lugging bags or trolleys of paper. Email offered a way of dispensing with all this bother and expense. So organisations began to deluge employees with electronic documents. And the flood of email rapidly became the torrent that paralyses us today. Email has morphed from a communication channel into a means of bureaucratic control.

It can’t go on like this. Already some of the more alert businesses have realised that email has become a dysfunctional technology. They are instituting rules like a daily limit on the amount of time spent dealing with it. Or stipulating that email can only be done at the beginning and end of the working day. One organisation requires employees to don a red baseball cap when they are emailing, so that managers patrolling their open-plan offices can spot the addicts. I hear that one CEO of a US hi-tech firm has opened up his inbox so everyone can read it - with a corresponding reduction in sycophantic and attachment-laden messages.

Other solutions will doubtless emerge. In the meantime, here are some suggestions for refuseniks. First, change your own behaviour: always ask ‘is this email really necessary?’ before sending it. Never, ever send an email to a colleague in the next office. Set up a filter to block every message on which you are cc’d: deal only with messages addressed directly to you. Get yourself a private email address which is only known to your nearest and dearest.

And, finally, in extremis, call someone. As BT used to say, it’s good to talk.

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Viagra sales go limp after flourish

July 17, 2007

AHMEDABAD: The little blue pill, which has enabled many an Indian man to rise to the occasion, seems to be finding it difficult to get it up any further. The sales growth, that is! Viagra and its numerous desi cousins, a sure cure for erectile dysfunction (ED), have shown a minuscule growth of 5.43 per cent in sales.

As per latest ORG figures, the ED segment has clocked a turnover of Rs 121 crore for 12 months ending May 2007, as compared to a total turnover of Rs 115 crore seen during the same period last year. The sildenafil citrate-based drug was launched in the year 2001 and tadalafil was launched in 2003.

The market has grown from Rs 57 crore in 2003 to Rs 122 crore in 2007 — a compounded annual growth rate of 29 per cent. Soon after the launch of the drugs, growth in this segment ranged from 50 to 75 per cent, leading to all major pharma companies hankering after the ED dysfunction segment to produce Viagra clones for big business.

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Medicos attribute sluggish sales to growing apprehensions about sideeffects of the drugs. “The hype around sildenafil citrate has mellowed noticeably in the past two years. People had huge expectations from the drug, thinking it to be a ‘switch-on’ pill. Once they find it does not work like that, the segment, which was buying for fun has reduced, says psychiatrist and sex-therapist Dr Mrugesh Vaishnav.

Industry watchers attribute the slow sales growth of these pills to entry of sub-standard generic players, which have taken the lion’s share of the market. The top three brands now are Manforce (Mankind), Penegra (Zydus) and Caverta (Ranbaxy),which have a market share of 39 per cent, 14.21 per cent and 12.13 per cent respectively.

Medical experts insist that almost 50 per cent Viagra-clones are bought over the counter, rendering people vulnerable to side-effects. “Headache and visual disturbances have affected a lot of people who took the pill without proper guidance,” says psychiatrist Hansal Bhachech.

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Wrestler received Viagra from clinic at heart of probe

July 11, 2007

ALBANY — A pro wrestler who hanged himself after strangling his wife and suffocating his 7-year-old son in their Georgia home received a single order of Viagra from a South Florida wellness clinic that was targeted in an Albany-based steroids investigation, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

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Viagra, a prescription drug, is used to increase sexual potency in men and is not a steroid or performance-enhancing drug. The prescription for pro wrestler Christopher M. Benoit Sr., 40, was filled last July by Signature Compounding Pharmacy in Orlando and mailed to him at an address in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., officials in the case said.

Benoit’s prescription for Viagra was processed by MedXLife, a Florida wellness clinic whose operators pleaded guilty to prescription drug charges in Albany County on April 25.

On Tuesday, sources familiar with the Albany investigation misstated that MedXLife had also shipped two other prescription drug orders to Benoit, one to a Texas hotel in late 2005 and another to his former home outside Atlanta.

Now more details are emerging, and officials in the Albany investigation confirmed Wednesday that shipping records show the two other prescription drug orders sent to Benoit were processed by Infinity Longevity, a Boca Raton, Fla., wellness clinic whose owners have not been charged in connection with the steroids investigation.

Investigators said they are trying to determine what type of prescription drugs Benoit allegedly received from Infinity Longevity, which steered business to Signature pharmacy, according to wiretaps in the case.

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Infinity Longevity is owned by Anthony Forgione, a former Boca Raton police officer who was fired in April 2003 for allegedly using anabolic steroids, according to Florida State Department records and a story published in the Palm Beach Post that year.

Officials in the Albany case said they are sharing information with Georgia authorities, who are trying to determine whether steroids or other drugs played a role in last weekend’s murder-suicide.

Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard, the Georgia prosecutor steering the Benoit investigation, said authorities discovered needle marks on the arm of Benoit’s son and believe the couple, or Benoit alone, may have been injecting the boy with human growth hormone because they believed he was undersized, according to published reports.

Infinity Longevity is one of several so-called “wellness clinics'’ that authorities say funneled prescriptions for steroids and other drugs to Signature pharmacy.

Sealed wiretaps in the steroids investigation, which were reviewed by the Times Union in March, showed at least one instance last year in which law enforcement officials were listening in on Signature’s telephone calls when there was an exchange involving Infinity Longevity.

A transcript of that call recounted a man calling Signature pharmacy and saying he was ready to make a purchase after finding their Web site on the Internet.

Tony Palladino, a corporate account manager at Signature, fielded the call and explained to the man that they only filled prescriptions. He advised the caller to contact Infinity Longevity.

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You’ve got mail - all you need is a way to get rid of it

July 9, 2007

You can’, my mother used to say, ‘have too much of a good thing’. Since she was generally not in favour of good things (which she equated with self-indulgence), I habitually disregarded this advice. But I am now beginning to wonder if she may have been right after all. This thought is sparked by an inspection of my email system. I have 852 messages in my ‘office’ inbox. Correction, make that 854: two more came in while I was typing that last sentence. My personal inbox has 1,304 messages. My spam-blocking service tells me that, in the past 30 days, I received no fewer than 3,920 invitations to: enhance my, er, physique; invest in dodgy shares; send money to the deserving widows of Nigerian dictators; and purchase Viagra. I am - literally - drowning in email.

And I am not alone. Everyone I know is feeling the same. In the New York Times the other day, Nora Ephron, the novelist and screenwriter (and the director of You’ve Got Mail), wrote a witty piece on ‘The Six Ages of Email’. They are: infatuation, clarification, confusion, disenchantment, accommodation and death. I particularly like her description of the ‘clarification’ phase. ‘It takes five seconds to accomplish in an email message something that takes five minutes on the telephone. The phone requires you to converse, to say things like hello and goodbye, to pretend to some semblance of interest in the person on the other end of the line. Worst of all, the phone occasionally forces you to make actual plans with the people you talk to - even if you have no desire whatsoever to see them. No danger of that with email.’

If I took it seriously, I could spend all day dealing with my email and never do any actual work. Which is why, increasingly, I tend to ignore my inboxes. This may seem discourteous, but in fact it isn’t - because much of ‘my’ email isn’t actually aimed primarily at me at all. I am just one of the people who is cc’d on the correspondence. In other words, people who are communicating with one another have added me as a kind of bystander. Their motives for doing this are varied. In some cases they are doing me a courtesy, or trying to persuade me that they’re not doing things behind my back. (Little do they know that I couldn’t care less.) In other cases, they are simply being lazy or covering their arses in case anything goes wrong, at which point they will say that I was ‘kept in the loop’ and accordingly must share some of the blame.

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The problem is not with email as such, but with the way organisations have subverted - or perverted - it for bureaucratic purposes. And they have done it for the same reason that spammers have perverted personal email: because it’s cheap and easy to do. In the old days, big organisations had massive internal mail systems, with post-rooms and messengers lugging bags or trolleys of paper. Email offered a way of dispensing with all this bother and expense. So organisations began to deluge employees with electronic documents. And the flood of email rapidly became the torrent that paralyses us today. Email has morphed from a communication channel into a means of bureaucratic control.

It can’t go on like this. Already some of the more alert businesses have realised that email has become a dysfunctional technology. They are instituting rules like a daily limit on the amount of time spent dealing with it. Or stipulating that email can only be done at the beginning and end of the working day. One organisation requires employees to don a red baseball cap when they are emailing, so that managers patrolling their open-plan offices can spot the addicts. I hear that one CEO of a US hi-tech firm has opened up his inbox so everyone can read it - with a corresponding reduction in sycophantic and attachment-laden messages.

Other solutions will doubtless emerge. In the meantime, here are some suggestions for refuseniks. First, change your own behaviour: always ask ‘is this email really necessary?’ before sending it. Never, ever send an email to a colleague in the next office. Set up a filter to block every message on which you are cc’d: deal only with messages addressed directly to you. Get yourself a private email address which is only known to your nearest and dearest.

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Don’t get hot and bothered about summer plans, bills

July 2, 2007

Who’s ready to make this the Best. Summer. Ever?

You, over there with the sweat pouring off your forehead?

How about you, the one waving the utility bill that reads “$657.83″ in the little box?
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So summer can present challenges. But with a little help, they’re surmountable. Here’s a guide to making summer swell.

Improve gas mileage

There is little you can do about high gasoline prices. But Aaron Gold, the car guide at www.about.com, has suggestions to improve mileage while you’re reconsidering that purchase of a Hummer and pricing electric-gas hybrids.

Keeping your tires properly inflated and using a clean air filter are basic strategies.

Washing your car, particularly its underbody, can make a difference in its longevity. While you’re tidying up, empty the inside of the car, too. Many people let odds and ends pile up. It doesn’t take much to acquire an extra 50 pounds of junk in the trunk, and the more weight a car hauls, the more gas it uses.

New wheels and tires can improve handling and may look cool. But if they’re wider than the stock tires, chances are good they create more resistance and decrease fuel economy.

Prepare kids for camp

Susan Inglese, co-founder of the Web site www.fun campstuff.com, says getting the most out of camp requires planning and the girding of emotions. Fortunately, being organized will keep parents and kids so busy there may not be much separation anxiety.

Packing properly is essential. Include pre-addressed, stamped envelopes, an address book, stickers, stationery (both personalized and not - kids like to trade), a family photo and an item that can be autographed by bunk buddies. Autograph pillows are popular.

Pack with your child, so he or she knows where everything is.

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“When I sent my child the first year,” Inglese says, “halfway through the camp season I hadn’t received any letters. That was because she couldn’t find the stamps.”

Inglese likes to secretly pack a small gift her child will find later or mail one ahead of time to camp. Sending your kid on overnight stays with grandparents or neighbors during the weeks leading up to camp is another good idea. That way, he or she is used to waking up without you around.

Send several little bottles of soap, shampoo and other toiletries rather than a large one of each. They’re easier to carry, and if one gets lost, your kid still will have more.

Find a water bottle with a wide mouth. It’s easier to pack ice into one. Send anything that glows in the dark. That’s always a big hit when it’s lights out.

If phone calls are allowed at camp, schedule them early in the day. That way, campers will hang up and run off to other activities, rather than head to bed with nothing to think about but being homesick.

When your child comes home, unpack his or her trunk outside.

“You never know what you might find in there,” Inglese says. “You can find bugs and ants and dirt and sand. You really don’t want to bring that into your house.”

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