Erectile Dysfunction and Impotence Treatment

The world, including the US, is being flooded with counterfeit Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications. A report in the Feb 12, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine highlights the dangerous problems.

Last night on Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Mark "McSteamy" Sloan, suffered a penile fracture during sex with intern Lexie Grey. Did they make up a medical issue or is penile fracture something that can truly happen?

Penile fracture is a true medical problem. Medical literature reports about 2,000 cases each year, so it is likely to be twice that number. It is a problem that is under reported. Patient's are embarrassed by the problem.

Group warns impotence drug users by listing 56 medications that may cause dangerous interactions or alter the effectiveness of erectile dysfunction drugs.

People who take three well-known erectile dysfunction medications should be extremely careful if they take any of 56 other drugs, including many commonly prescribed anti-angina and certain blood pressure medications, grapefruit juice and St. John’s Wort, Public Citizen writes in a new January article posted on its WorstPills.org Web site.

Hispanic men between the ages of 20 and 50 are two and one half times as likely to develop erectile dysfunction (ED) as men of other races and ethnicities, according to a 2005 study of 2126 men published in the American Medical Association's "Archives of Internal Medicine".

Health Canada is warning consumers not to use Firm Dose and Granite Rooster, two products promoted to enhance male sexual performance, as these products may pose serious health risks. Firm Dose was found to contain an undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient similar to the prescription drug sildenafil, while the product Granite Rooster was found to contain an undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient similar to the prescription drug tadalafil. These drugs should only be used under the supervision of a health care professional.

The Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) appealed to people not to buy or use a product called "Zhuang Tjar Gere" for managing sexual dysfunction.

A spokesman for the department said the product was found to have contained undeclared drug ingredients that may cause serious side effects.

He said the department received a report concerning a 79-year-old man who fainted and injured his chest on October 25. He was admitted to Yan Chai Hospital on October 29 and was discharged on November 15.

Plethora Solutions Holdings PLC ("Plethora", AIM: PLE), the specialist developer of products for the treatment and management of urological disorders, announces results of a study confirming the role its product, ErecAid, as a supplemental first line treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED). ErecAid is marketed through Plethora's US subsidiary, Timm Medical Technologies, Inc. ("Timm Medical", Minneapolis, MN).

Health Canada is advising consumers not to use the following product listed in the table below due to concerns about possible side-effects.

Product Description

Viapro is promoted as a dietary supplement for men used for sexual enhancement. The product comes in 375 mg capsules packaged in a 1- or 2-capsule blister pack, or in 10-capsule bottles.

Reason for Warning

Erectile dysfunction may be the early warning predictor symptom of heart attack. However, the link between erectile dysfunction and the risk of heart disease is being ignored by doctors, writes Dr Geoffrey Hackett from the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.

Over many years Hackett reports regularly seeing patients referred with erectile dysfunction after a heart attack, only to hear that they had developed erectile dysfunction two to three years before - a warning sign ignored by their general practitioners.

An herbal remedy called “horny goat weed” has been studied by Dr. Mario Dell’Agli and his team at the University of Milan. The herb has long held a reputation in China as a natural aphrodisiac and now it looks like it could be a promising alternative to Viagra for impotent men. Dr. Dell’Agli calls it a “natural Viagra” because the compound targets the phosphodiesterase molecule (PDE-5) and it blocked the erection-inhibiting enzyme as well as Viagra.