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Much research is on-going regarding Viagra's effect on women. I'm not yet ready to prescribe it for my patients, but it is an area of study that I'm keeping up on. Read the latest about Viagra below, and if you are interested check out the posted link:
Viagra Effective for Some Women
Fri Dec 26,11:26 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In some postmenopausal women with sexual arousal problems, treatment with Viagra is effective and well tolerated, according to a new study.
Compared with women who took an inactive pill, or placebo, those who received Viagra reported "substantial positive effects on sexual function."
Researchers led by Dr. Jennifer R. Berman at the University of California-Los Angeles studied 202 women with "a persistent or recurring inability to attain or maintain sufficient sexual excitement that causes personal distress, which may be experienced as a lack of subjective excitement, genital lubrication/swelling, genital sensation or other somatic responses."
The benefits of treatment included significant improvements in genital sensation during intercourse or stimulation and in their satisfaction with intercourse or foreplay, or both.
While there were significant improvements on Viagra, the authors recommend that doctors take a thorough medical and psychological history from women seeking treatment for sexual problems to determine if other methods of treatment could work.
SOURCE: Journal of Urology, December 2003.
Personally I drink a lot of coffee. It's good to occasionally read some positive news about this tasty liquid that gets me going in the morning.
Coffee Cuts Risk Of Diabetes
NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2004
(CBS) Coffee has a complicated reputation, reports CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin. It's popular worldwide, but over the years, caffeine -- its main ingredient -- has been linked to some cancers, jitteriness and insomnia.
(CBS) Coffee has a complicated reputation, reports CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin. It's popular worldwide, but over the years, caffeine -- its main ingredient -- has been linked to some cancers, jitteriness and insomnia.
But there's new research about our favorite pick-me-up that may "perk" up its image: a study that finds drinking coffee cuts the risk of Type 2 diabetes. "We found that heavy coffee consumption substantially reduced the risk of Type 2 diabetes in both men and women," said Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health.
By "heavy" coffee consumption -- researchers mean 6 or more cups a day -- but what they found was startling. Among the thousands of men and women followed for the study, male coffee drinkers had a 50 percent reduction in diabetes risk. The risk for women was reduced by 30 percent.
"Contrary to what was initially thought, coffee is not bad for you. In fact, it may be good for you," said Dr. Peter Martin.
The study results are not an invitation to start drinking six cups of coffee a day if you don't already -- it will still keep you up at night. But at least now you won't be kept awake worrying that the coffee you're drinking is only doing you harm.
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