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...impotence related to physical problems, like diabetes. The men were given laboratory-synthesized yohimbine daily for eight to ten weeks. Ten improved, with six once again able to sustain erection and reach orgasm. The drug unexpectedly also relieves some of the numbness and prickling in the legs that frequently afflict diabetics. Unpleasant side effects were limited to temporary dizziness or gastrointestinal upset. The Canadian team is now beginning a two-year study of yohimbine vs. placebo in 120 men with impotence of organic or psychological origin...
...possible. Let GUERRILLA and other students protest for longer library hours and the other little things that Harvard can do to make life easier for them; but let them do so only after they can say with truth that they have also protested about far worse problems that afflict people everywhere...
This is the basic G.O.P. cure-all for most of the ills that afflict the nation. Say the Republicans: "American families are already paying taxes at higher rates than ever in our history; as a result of Carter's policies, the rates will go even higher." The platform calls for the Kemp-Roth cut of 30% in federal income tax rates over three years, a reduction opposed by the Democrats on the ground that the rich would save more money in taxes than the poor. The Republicans also propose indexing taxes to the inflation rate to eliminate bracket creep...
...from the Greek "to creep," has been around for ages: the Roman Emperor Tiberius vainly tried to stamp it, or something like it, out by banning kissing. With the sexual revolution of the 1960s, herpes broke out of its confines as a venereal disease that was thought (incorrectly) to afflict only the "licentious" lower classes. Suddenly, "viruses of love" infected entire college dormitories and rode the waves of rising divorce and crumbling monogamy...
Doctors are especially concerned because people can obtain PPA without prescriptions. The drug companies themselves acknowledge that it should not be taken by anyone with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes or thyroid disease. These conditions often afflict the overweight, in many instances without their knowledge. PPA, alone or together with other drugs, such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (antidepressants) or indomethacin (an antiarthritic), can induce severe episodes of hypertension. There has also been a case of kidney failure in a woman who had been taking a PPA preparation for a few weeks along with a few tablets of aspirin and acetaminophen...