Erectile Dysfunction

The ambivalent response to Dole was and is telling: "Western culture," writes McLaren, a history professor at Canada's University of Victoria, "has simultaneously regarded impotence as life's greatest tragedy and life's greatest joke." In discussing impotence from Roman times (when a hard man was good to find, regardless of the object of his affections) to the Middle Ages (when Church officials would order suspect husbands to perform in front of clergy) to our current era of little blue pills (whose furious rise in sales has already started to decline), McLaren has written a path-breaking history of masculinity.Where previous scholars have generally understood "maleness" as "natural," he stresses that it has often been explicitly tied to sexual capacity.

Hence, men's centuries-long anxiety about sexual failure-and a quickness to blame any performance issues on women, who, when they wer...

As the patient population increases, driven by an ageing population, a rise in obesity and erosion of social taboo, the market is expected to swell even further.

'Content Across the seven major markets, the Three brands, Viagra (sildenafil), Eli Lilly's Cialis (tadalafil) and Levitra (vardenafil), marketed by Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline and Schering-Plough, were predominantly responsible for this growth.

According to IMS Health, these drugs hold an enormous 96% of the ...

Vectura said in the second double-blind placebo-controlled trial of around 600 patients, VR004 improved erectile performance, with a rapid onset of action, and was well tolerated.

"Most interestingly, the company confirmed a rapid onset of action which was previously seen in its other study … We remain strong buyers of Vectura," Bridgewell Analyst Elizabeth Klein said.

Vectura plans to outlicense its sexual dysfunction program and Klein said, following these tests, she would expect it to be able to do so within the next year.

Shares in Vectura were up 1.4 percent at 88-1/2 pence in early trade, valuing the group at around 278 million pounds ($557.2 million).

ED, which affects more than 50 million men in the United States and European Union, is defined as the consistent inability to achieve and maintain an erection adequate for satisfactory sexual function.

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