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Levitra is a prescription medicine that’s used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED). Levitra works like other impotence drugs in its class by inhibiting or blocking the action of the PDE-5 enzyme in the body. The PDE-5 enzyme is a naturally occurring chemical that’s part of a chain of messages that tell a man’s erection to [...]

Plavix is an effective drug given for the preventing blood clots after a heart attack. The drug is also given to persons with certain disorders of the blood vessels.
The drug has to be taken with food or in empty stomach. Plavix should have to be taken with a full glass of water. Once you are [...]

Erectile dysfunction (ED) can be caused by a number of different conditions. Some will not respond to any medication. This means either that there will be no effective treatment at all or that additional therapy is required for the underlying cause of the ED (which may extend to surgery, chemo- and radiotherapy, etc.). Thus, when [...]

Failure to achieve an erection less than 20% of the time is perfectly normal, but many men suffer with the problem much more than this. Erectile dysfunction affects just over one in ten American men, half of whom suffer with the condition long-term. This rate rises to 50% of men between the ages of 40 [...]

Death from asthma is uncommon. Available mortality statistics for the United States indicate a death rate of approximately 0.3 per 100,000 persons.
The available information on the clinical course of asthma suggests that somewhere between 50 to 80 percent of all patients can expect to have a reasonably good prognosis, particularly those whose disease is mild [...]

A new and simple urine test can detect polyomavirus nephropathy, a relatively new and serious complication that affects up to 9% of kidney transplant recipients, according to a study appearing in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The advance could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of patients [...]

Humans and mice are attracted by the same odors. This has been revealed for the first time by a team of French researchers in the “Neurosciences sensorielles, comportement, cognition” Unit (CNRS / Université Lyon 1). Published on January 16, 2009 in the journal Plos One, their work confirms that olfactory preferences are not solely [...]

Whether condoms or abstinence, most efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases have a common logic: keep the pathogen out of your body altogether. While this approach is certainly reasonable enough, it doesn’t help the countless people worldwide who, for a number of reasons, are not in a position to control their sexual circumstances. Now, Harvard [...]

For the brain to achieve its intricate functions such as perception, action, attention and decision making, neural regions have to work together yet still retain their specialized roles. Excess or lack of timely coordination between brain areas lies at the core of a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism, Parkinson’s [...]

The increasing trend for employers, particularly in the U.S., to bar smokers from applying for jobs or staying in post should be stopped, until the appropriateness of such policies has been properly evaluated, argue experts in an essay published in Tobacco Control. As of August 2008, 21 US states, 400 U.S. cities, nine Canadian provinces, [...]