Study Shows Liposuction Byproduct Could Lead to ED Cure

23-Mar-2015 - A new study appearing in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine has moved science one step closer to finding a simple treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) after prostate cancer surgery, eschewing the usual pharmaceutical drug route with potential for harmful side effects, in favor of stem cell ...

Smuggling Erectile Dysfunction Chemicals

Tadalafil Found in Passenger's Luggage Had Estimated Domestic Value is $179,000

16-Jan-2012 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Tom Bradley International Terminal stopped the attempt to smuggle over 63.3 pounds of tadalafil, the main chemical component of erectile dysfunction drugs. The substance with an estimated domestic value ...

After a good third quarter: Bayer confirms Group outlook

Net income more than doubled to EUR 642 million (plus 125.3 percent)

01-Nov-2011 - The Bayer Group achieved further sales growth and significantly increased earnings in the third quarter of 2011. “It was a good quarter for Bayer,” Management Board Chairman Dr. Marijn Dekkers said Thursday at the presentation of the interim report. He described the continuing growth momentum in ...

Identifying molecular targets for diabetes-related ED

08-Apr-2010 - Erectile dysfunction is one of the most prevalent diabetes-induced complications in men; current estimates suggest that as many as 75% of men with diabetes will develop some degree of ED, and in many cases diabetics develop more severe forms of ED that are less responsive to standard drugs. Now, ...

Study points to new uses, unexpected side effects of already existing drugs

06-Nov-2009 - Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. The researchers developed a computational method that compares ...

Tadalafil shows promise for relief of lower urinary tract symptoms associated with BPH

20-Aug-2008 - Men with signs of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) can be helped with a daily dose of tadalafil (Cialis®) to relieve associated lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), according to a new study published in The Journal of Urology. Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical ...

Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co Ltd Exports Zydena to Russia

18-Oct-2007 - Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co Ltd announced that its subsidiary, Dong-A Pharm-tech, entered into a five-year, US$50 Million contract with Otechestvennye Lekarstva OJSC to market Zydena, Dong-A's erectile dysfunction drug, in Russia. Under the terms of the agreement, signed on October 15, 2007, ...

The Crowded Field of VEGF and VEGF-R Targeting Drugs

18-Aug-2006 - The Business Intelligence firm La Merie S.L. reported that the versatility of the validated VEGF and VEGF-R target and its tractability for all kinds of drug classes has filled the pipeline of VEGF agonists, VEGF/VEGF-R antagonists and VEGF-R tyrosine kinase (tk) inhibitors. Apart from ...

New Drug to Improve Erectile Function

Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline Announce EMEA Acceptance of Regulatory Filing for Vardenafil

04-Feb-2002 - Leverkusen/London ? Bayer AG and GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) today announce that the European Medicinal Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has accepted the filing of a the marketing authorization application for vardenafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). Bayer submitted the registration ...