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Article: OLD DRUGS, NEW LIFE PROPECIA TREATS HAIR LOSS BUT STARTED AS A WAY TO SHRINK THE PROSTATE. ZYBAN, AN AID TO QUIT SMOKING, IS ALSO AN ANTIDEPRESSANT. THE TREND: PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS FINDING NEW USES NOT JUST FOR GIVEN PRODUCTS BUT FOR STALLED COMPOUNDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 31, 2003
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It sounds like a spam e-mail pitch: a pill to help men last longer
in the bedroom.
But the drug to prevent premature ejaculation also represents a
$65 million bet by a North Carolina company, partnered with Johnson &
Johnson, that researchers can develop a market success. Known as
dapoxetine, the drug is in the third stage of clinical trials, and if
approved by regulators in coming years it would be the first
prescription approved to treat the condition, most prevalent in young
men.
Developers hope it could sell nearly as well as Viagra, the Pfizer
Inc. pill for erectile dysfunction. While those blue pills affect a
man's blood vessels, dapoxetine changes the level of the chemical
serotonin ...