From CNN: "Viagra Associated with Hearing Loss"
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/19/viagra-associated-with-hearing-loss/?hpt=Sbin
Is anyone really surprised by this?
I suppose it is nice to have medical proof that a man with a boner can't hear worth a damn.
And it also makes me wonder if knowing that Viagra has this side-effect might not trigger other non-medical applications. Such as for middle-aged parents with a screaming two-year-old.
It also makes me wonder why there aren't more medications with "good" side-effects.
Except, well, of course, there is Viagra itself, which was originally marketed as a treatment for high blood pressure until it was discovered to have other, um, uplifting effects.
Then there was Minoxidil (Rogaine), which was also originally marketed as a treatment for high blood pressure, which helped raise things of a follicular nature.
Do I sense a pattern here? (And I am not referring to the "high blood pressure".)
Why aren't there more "good" side-effects that benefit women?
Wouldn't it be nice to find that the same drugs that you take to control your PMS were found to also reduce cellulite?
Or that your anti-depressant also made your breasts perky?
Or, maybe best of all, that Retin-A in addition to smoothing your wrinkles also selectively effected your short-term memory so that suddenly all those stories and jokes you've heard a million times are suddenly fresh and funny...
Oh, wait, that really isn't a change in pattern, is it?
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/19/viagra-associated-with-hearing-loss/?hpt=Sbin
Is anyone really surprised by this?
I suppose it is nice to have medical proof that a man with a boner can't hear worth a damn.
And it also makes me wonder if knowing that Viagra has this side-effect might not trigger other non-medical applications. Such as for middle-aged parents with a screaming two-year-old.
It also makes me wonder why there aren't more medications with "good" side-effects.
Except, well, of course, there is Viagra itself, which was originally marketed as a treatment for high blood pressure until it was discovered to have other, um, uplifting effects.
Then there was Minoxidil (Rogaine), which was also originally marketed as a treatment for high blood pressure, which helped raise things of a follicular nature.
Do I sense a pattern here? (And I am not referring to the "high blood pressure".)
Why aren't there more "good" side-effects that benefit women?
Wouldn't it be nice to find that the same drugs that you take to control your PMS were found to also reduce cellulite?
Or that your anti-depressant also made your breasts perky?
Or, maybe best of all, that Retin-A in addition to smoothing your wrinkles also selectively effected your short-term memory so that suddenly all those stories and jokes you've heard a million times are suddenly fresh and funny...
Oh, wait, that really isn't a change in pattern, is it?
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