Archive for September, 2008

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

This is an article that compares and contrasts one product with another, making the other look really bad. Now we won’t do that. We are always absolutely fair and never do more than state facts, not opinions. So here is something you can check out for yourself.

Most men seem to do best with an average dose of 50mg. Cheap online levitra, on the other hand, comes in 2.5mg, 5mg, 10mg and 20mg. Most men seem to do best with 10mg tablets but many get perfect results with the lower dosages. Why should anyone care? Well, you’re taking five times less of the same active ingredients to achieve the same results. As a general rule in the world of medication, the smaller the dose, the lower the risk you will experience any side effects. Side effects aren’t thing many people have. Not that many with either drug but, if you were looking for a reason to prefer Levitra, safety would be top of the list for most.

Hot spots in Indonesia. What’s that all about?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Can you imagine anyone thinking spots are hot? Oh, God. There you are in the morning, looking in the mirror in bathroom and despair. You’re lining up to take the Accutane - signing up for some internet site is a real pain but it will all be worth it when the acne’s gone. Actually, you probably don’t know where Indonesia is, but, hey, it’s weird that anyone should talk about spots like that. So you stop and then smile. It’s not quite what you thought. No-one knows why we’re spying on Indonesia but it all fits because your deep-seated spots burn fiercely and nothing else has been able to make them go away. That’s why you’ve signed the iPledge and your parents are going to buy Accutane online. With a little luck, it will all be gone in six months time. You’ve just got acne on your mind. It seems those Indonesians burn their forests and our great network of spy satellites can see the hot spots where the fires are burning most fiercely.

It’s official. Win gold at the Olympics with Cialis

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

It’s official news that Cialis can be used as a doping. There are now new uses for existing drugs (and some new drugs) that will fly under the radar of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s tests. Perhaps some of the better informed athletes have been using these techniques at the Olympics at Beijing. If so, we’ll never know. So what do we know about those techniques? Well, let’s start with the go-faster tattoos. I love these ideas. Researchers at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum - the cancer research center in Germany - have shown that tattooing is sixteen times more effective than injections in delivering a drug into the body. But the most interesting ideas are the use of and nitrous oxide gas. Yes, friends, inhaling laughing gas makes you go faster, jump higher, and so on. Your blood vessels are opening, making you feel a great amount of power inside. Blood flows increase and bring more oxygen to those working muscles faster. The advantage of Cialis is that it stays in the body for longer - it’s not called the “weekend” pill for nothing. So the next time you see a runner coming down the street towards you covered in tattoos, popping pills and breathing from a gas canister, this is your next Olympian in training.

What will the world be like when the sleeper awakes in 2018?

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Futurology is always leaving me with the feeling that there is something wrong in my world outlook. This is, as the name suggests, the willingness of experts to predict what will happen in the future by applying probabilities and other scientific methods. Basically, it is extrapolation from the current state of affairs and, as such, much beloved of those who engage in the “art” of marketing. This April sees the publication of a new report by PharmiWeb (2002) Ltd. It sets out to predict which current or future products will be significant contributors to the market to treat sleep disorders over the next ten years - an ambitious timescale for anyone without a reliable crystal ball. Actually this is a market in its best displays. In April last year, ambien lost its patent protection in the United States. Although a generic version sold under the name of zolpidem (tartrate) will be launched, Ambien is almost certain to maintain its brand dominance because the world market is predicted to grow. Indeed, the most recent data on the number of prescriptions for ambien continues a trend of upward demand.

On the basis of current medical research, it is estimated that some 200m people around the world may be affected by sleep disorders. If that is the case, pharmaceutical companies working in the sleep field have only just begun to scratch the surface of the total market. As the public become more aware of the range of these disorders and of the existing and pending treatments, demand should continue to grow. For the insomnia market, the focus remains on the existing medications with the fewest side effects, i.e. the benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepine hypnotics such as ambien.This second point requires clarification. Never one to skimp, the medical profession has identified some eighty different sleep disorders. Such exuberance is extraordinary to describe a condition in which people cannot get to sleep or sleep for very long. But, of course, that is only insomnia. When we get started on the other disorders, we include narcolepsy (involuntary sleep), sleep apnoea (brief periods when you stop breathing while asleep), bruxism (grinding your teeth while asleep), night terrors, and so on.

Killing is the only way to measure weight loss

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Japanese have just published a scientific report in Polar Biology - another of those must-read journals. Kenji Konishi, who works out of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo, said August 27 that killing was the only way to accurately measure factors such as body weight or fat thickness! So if you’re holidaying in the polar regions this Fall and see a Japanese researcher coming towards you with one of those big samurai swords, you may decide that you don’t want to be a part of the research. Except that he’s talking about Antarctic minke whales. OK, so when did you last see a minke whale on your bathroom weighing scales? He’s got a point. It’s hard to get a whale to stay still long enough to get an accurate reading. And then there are those caliper things, the “fat pinchers”. Where would you get pinchers big enough? Seems hard to have to kill them to find out whether their diets are working. How would you like it in a clinical trial? Take these Acomplia tablets for six months and then we’ll kill you to find out how much adipose fat you’ve lost. Can’t they just guess? Actually, when it comes to human clinical trials, they use advanced science like tape measures for waists. Acomplia has done well. Participants lose an average 10% of their body weight and an average 3 inches (8 cm) from their waists. Perhaps the minke whales are buying Acomplia online. Let’s not kill them to find out.

When the cap fits.

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I’ll keep wearing the physician’s hat for a little longer. There are a number of possible causes of some types of disfunctions with erections to work our way through, giving us a fair chance to review all the most common.

Erectile Dysfunction is quite a common early symptom of Diabetes or/and cardiovascular disease or both. If you check through the literature, you’ll find that about 12% of patients who are later confirmed as diabetic first appear in the consulting rooms complaining of ED. So some good can come out of treating ED, usually with Viagra, Cialis or Levitra although, given that these drugs may not always be allowed as treatment, it is better to prevent the onset of the Diabetes if at all possible, say, by reducing excess weight.

A few years back, the Massachusetts Male Aging Study (MMAS) of men aged between forty and seventy years found that 28% of men with diabetes had ED. Averaging out the later surveys over the age range, ED develops between ten and fifteen years earlier in men with diabetes. Above the age of 50 years, between 50-60% of men with diabetes will have difficulties with an erection. Above 70 years, it is almost certain that diabetic men will have some difficulty with erectile function.

The cause of ED in diabetic men usually has both organic and psychological elements. Even if the first cause is not physical, the onset of organic ED almost inevitably produces serious performance anxiety and, if not treated, depression. The combination inevitably affects the libido and this reinforces the disability.

So that leaves us with the question of how we treat both the ED and the diabetes.

Vascular disease with decreased flow of blood into the penis through arterial narrowing, hardening and closure, high blood pressure, peripheral nerve damage, hormonal problems, say, because of decreased gonadal function, and obesity are all more common in diabetic men and each one may be the cause of your ED. An increasing body of research indicates that half of all ED cases in diabetic men over 50 years are caused by arteriosclerotic disease resulting in a thickening, hardening and loss of elasticity in the arterial walls.

  • Drinking too much alcohol can damage your blood vessels and make ED more likely.
  • Performance anxiety and depression can cause ED. To keep your stress levels under control, you should review your current tasks, and set more reasonable goals and deadlines.
  • Regular physical exercise can keep your arteries clear and boost your stamina. If you lack motivation, do not stay solitary. Join a club or gym.
  • If you sleep well, you are less likely to suffer from ED.

This takes us into new territory for these articles. The vacuum constriction device works no matter what the cause of the ED. If you find the idea of using this piece of equipment off-putting, there is the possibility of intracavernosal injections to the penis to help stimulate an erection. Surgery and penile prostheses implantation are highly successful, but there are greater risks of infection when operating on diabetic men.

Thus, there are well-established systems for treating both diabetes and ED. There is no need to suffer in silence. Your sex life can be restored in most cases, albeit that sometimes, you cannot rely on a simple pill to solve the problems.