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...hasn't experienced that sinking feeling during a visit to the pharmacy ("Yoohoo! Your Viagra prescription is ready!"), or the face-reddening trauma of a teenage trip to the dermatologist ("The doctor's ready for your pimples, now, dear.")? If a new law is successful, those excruciating moments are a thing of the past. As of April 14th, we're all protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - a law designed to shield medical information from the prying eyes of individuals and companies...
Like the reliable erection its new product promised, Pfizer's stock had risen 21% in the previous two months. Some urologists bought rubber stamps so they could churn out prescriptions, and equally excited patients booked advance appointments. Despite all that, Viagra, the world's most popular prescription party drug, didn't have much of a party the day the FDA gave its much-anticipated O.K. to sildenafil citrate. That's because giant pharmaceutical companies--even ones that get a license from the government to print money in blue-pill form--aren't really party places. "We had a nice dinner...
...restrictions on generics. So far, it isn't working. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry, with American sales of $192 billion last year, is keen to limit imported generic drugs to those treating malaria, TB and aids, fearing a broader agreement could create a generic market in lucrative "lifestyle drugs" like Viagra. Worse, they fear generics could migrate back to countries where patents are protected. Of course, developing countries would have more money to pay for drugs if they could sell their produce on a world market undistorted by tariffs and subsidies - but WTO talks also bogged down on that front, this...
What Goes with Viagra...
...your item on the fifth anniversary of Viagra [YOUR TIME, Jan. 20]: When I asked my doctor if Viagra was compatible with taking the antidepressant Paxil, he said it was. And the beautiful part, he added, is that if the Viagra doesn't work when you are using Paxil, you don't care! BRIAN J. MULHERIN Augusta...