Maybe pushing Viagra isn't all bad

[jatar_k]

Viagra Stands Firm Against Muscular Dystrophy

Campbell treated the mice with the lood-flow-regulating drug sildenafil, better known as Viagra. To Campbell's surprise, it worked. The muscular dystrophy mice and nNOS-deficient mice no longer tired after light exercise.

[sciencenow.sciencemag.org...]

my daughter has it, which is my specific interest.

[LifeinAsia]

Viagra itself isn't the bad part. It's the people who send SPAM who are the baddies.

It's a clear example of one time when one SHOULD shoot the messenger for the message. :)

[tangor]

Interesting... but I worry that muscle burnout (overwork/accelerated burn) will do more harm than good. After all there's a good reason why they say one should see a doc if the effect lasts more than four hours.

A sixty watt bulb can be made to burn at 100 watts... and fail in half the time.

There is no magic silver bullet. Not in my experience (medic in the unpopular war and still interested in these things all these years later).

[jatar_k]

absolutely but every little bit helps and it's these things that are stumbled upon that often get the farthest

maybe I should let some bread get moldy ;)

[Marcia]

There would be exhaustive, tightly controlled clinical trials done before any conclusions would be drawn or any prescribing would be done. In fact, probably well before even applying for final FDA approval.

Just as UCLA was doing active recruiting of volunteers for clinical trials on radio here in Los Angeles long, long before Cialis was FDA approved and released.