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Doctor Defends Viagra Baby Treatment
A doctor in the southern Indian state of Kerala has unleashed a medical controversy by using the anti-impotence drug Viagra to treat new-born babies.

Dr P.K. Rajiv, head of the neo-natal care unit at the Amrita Institute of Medical Science, used the drug to treat three babies born with pulmonary hypertension, a lung condition.

The private institute in the city of Cochin said the unorthodox treatment saved the lives of the children.

But the doctor and the institute are now being accused of carrying out the experiment without asking proper permission from the relevant authorities.

The controversy has provoked tremendous public interest as it follows a recent row over improper and unauthorized medical trials at the Regional Cancer Centre in the state capital Trivandrum.

The anti-Viagra campaign is headed by a medical non-governmental organisation, Health Action by People (HAP).

The group's spokesman, CR Somani said Dr Rajiv's methods raised several ethical questions.

"To my knowledge it has not been endorsed by any regulatory body," he said, adding that negative side-effects might take time to surface.

However, Dr Rajiv insisted that the treatment was not dangerous.

"The drug was used on the two babies after all other treatments had failed", he said.

He also said that the treatment was not administered as part of any clinical trial programme, but as an emergency life saving measure.

Dr Rajiv said that he had discovered the life-saving properties of Viagra through research and that it was much cheaper than other conventional therapies.

He said he used the treatment for the first time in May last year, when a baby, barely a few hours old, was brought to him with severe breathing difficulties.

Woman convicted of killing man on Viagra
Area lawyers said a Jackson County murder case this week may have been the first use of what they called the Viagra defense.

Mary T. Frost, 33, said she stabbed her 77-year-old Kansas City housemate to death after the man, who used Viagra, asked her for sex, begged her for sex and then tried to rape her.

Jurors deliberated six hours Thursday before convicting Frost of second-degree murder. She can be sentenced from 10 years to life.

They convicted Frost, one juror later said, because they thought she could have defended herself without stabbing Oscar Fingers in the heart on June 18, 1998.

She was also guilty because she waited more than an hour to call police and to summon medical help for Fingers, he said.

"We felt she just left him to die," the juror said.

From the beginning, the case was unlike any that area lawyers had seen. The case hinged on Finger's use of Viagra and Frost's videotaped police statement last year. She did not testify, and the tape told her story at trial:

She had moved in with Fingers months before and had her own bedroom. The two were just friends, but he had started taking Viagra and slept with other women.

As she watched television that night, he asked her for sex. Then he got down on his knees and begged for sex. Then he started toward her and became more forceful.

"Oscar is really a nice person," but that night "he was acting like a maniac." She threw a ceramic rooster at him, ran into the kitchen and got a steak knife. She returned and waved the knife to keep him away.

"He started to reach for me, and I jumped up. I stuck him," Frost said.

He grabbed the knife, and she shoved him to the floor into a corner. He went into the bathroom.

She yelled she was calling police.

"If I go to jail, you're going to jail, too, because you had no business trying to rape me," she said she told him.

He told her not to call police. She told him she was sorry she stuck him and called her mother. Her mother told her to put a towel over the wound. (But the blade had pierced Fingers' heart, and he was bleeding internally).

Fingers cleaned the knife and handed it to her, and she put it back in the kitchen drawer. Frost called her mother again, and her mother and brother drove over. Her mother told her to call police, and Frost did -- more than an hour after the stabbing.

In closing arguments Thursday, assistant prosecutor Kate Mahoney said the two could have argued over something else. She reminded jurors that Fingers took Frost in as a favor to her mother months before and wanted Frost to leave. Frost refused.

Fingers also was afraid of Frost, Mahoney said. He had locked the kitchen butcher knives in the trunk of his car but left out the steak knives.

His Viagra use also helped the prosecution's case, Mahoney said.

"The fact that he took Viagra and had women shows he was no potential rapist -- he didn't even like her," Mahoney said.

Defense lawyer Jarrett Johnson said his client acted in self-defense in a horrifying situation of a man consumed by lust.

"He was getting angrier and angrier, and he made his intentions very clear," Johnson said.

Fingers didn't know how bad he was hurt, and he ordered her not to call police because he wanted to work things out, Johnson said.

Mahoney countered: "He was left to bleed to death on the bathroom floor."

And even if Frost told the truth, she did not have to stab the 77-year-old man to escape harm, Mahoney said.

After the verdict, Mahoney said other women who want to try a Viagra defense to murder might think again.

"It didn't work here," she said.

Man allegedly beats woman who rejected Viagra-fueled advances
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- An 89-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder, accused of clubbing a 34-year-old woman with a crowbar after she rejected his Viagra-charged advances.

Larry Demorest, who was arrested and jailed Thursday, said the woman made up the story.

''She convinced people I went sex-crazy,'' he said. ''The whole thing is a big lie.''

Kimberly Heariet has lived at Demorest's home off and on for 10 years and said they had a romantic relationship. She told sheriff's deputies that Demorest popped a Viagra, then tried to kill her after she refused to perform sex for money. She said his passion had been building since Tuesday, when a prostitute ran off with his money.

Ms. Heariet, who has had 18 arrests on charges of drug use, assault and prostitution, was treated at a hospital.

At least four friends and relatives of Demorest said Ms. Heariet was injured in a drunken head-first fall.

Demorest, who is widower, said his doctor prescribed the Viagra. He said a painful case of shingles has kept him from amorous pursuits for months.

''I might look good, but I'm still pushing 100,'' he said. ''For a man my age, I've got more than normal drive. With the right partner I can get along, but I don't pay prostitutes and stuff like that.''

Flaccid Flowers Bloom on Viagra
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli scientist has found a way to defer the droop in daisies and firm up flaccid freesia. He feeds them Viagra.

Rapidly wilting blooms are the bane of the floral industry, which often has a short window of time before harvested flowers become unusable.

Ya'acov Leshem, a professor of plant physiology at the Life Sciences Faculty of Bar Ilan University, and his colleague Ron Wills, of Australia's University of Newcastle, have been researching the loss of firmness, or "plant plasticity problem" -- a phenomenon similar to impotency in humans.

Leshem and Willis had received a patent for their work on extending the shelf life of fruits and vegetables using nitric oxide. When Leshem read the literature on Viagra, also known by its chemical name, sildenafil citrate, he realized its effect might be similar to that of nitric oxide.

Leshem discovered that, like nitric oxide, Viagra inhibits the enzyme that breaks down the cyclic GMP, and that it actually keeps flowers erect and alive for up to seven days beyond their normal life span.

When he began working on the experiment, he approached Viagra manufacturer Pfizer, but they were not particularly interested in providing him with samples. "They gave me a rather evasive answer," he said.

Undeterred, Leshem found an Israeli doctor who was intrigued and who provided him with a prescription for Viagra. Then he set to work testing cut flowers, one of Israel's biggest exports, by dissolving "a much smaller [amount] than humans take" of the pill, and adding it to the plants' water.

It also has an energizing effect on fruits and vegetables, yet Leshem is not suggesting it be added to anything edible. "We don't know the effect it might have," he said.

"Compounds like the ones mentioned in this study are found frequently by chance, but the real test will come when they are compared to the industry standards currently employed in the trade today," said Dennis Stimart, professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.

"If Viagra is keeping flowers alive for three to four weeks post-harvest compared to controls which are lasting 10 to 12 days, then we may have something to pay more attention about."

Leshem will be presenting his findings on Viagra, together with his work on nitric oxide, at the International Conference on Fresh-Cut Produce in England in September.

Pfizer declined to comment on Leshem's research.

Prudish pandas turn to Viagra
Chinese pandas are being given the anti-impotence drug Viagra, according to the Wen Hui Daily newspaper in Shanghai.
It is hoped that the drug will boost their famously feeble attempts to mate.

Poaching and loss of habitat have reduced the worldwide giant panda population to just 1,000 and many warnings of extinction have been made.

Most efforts to breed the animals in captivity have failed, leading to a recent project to clone panda embryos with the intention of artificially implanting them.

The problem with many captive pandas is that they are curiously coy about amorous advances from the opposite sex.

Whether Viagra, which helps stimulate an erection, will help is not known, but the newspaper said: "The male panda can only mate for at most 30 seconds at a time and hence the chances of getting the female pregnant are very low.

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"With Viagra, the male could last for up to 20 minutes."

Sally Nicholson, Head of International Policy at the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, told BBC News Online: "There is a myth about pandas being reluctant to mate. In the wild, they can certainly do it, but in captivity they do have a problem which no-one has yet cracked.

"I say good luck to the researchers testing the Viagra, as long as they are very careful to avoid any damaging side effects."

But Ms Nicholson, who is in frequent contact with WWF's panda programme in China, added that WWF's primary concern was the protection of the panda's habitat: "Pandas can survive in the next century if their habitats are protected - the recent logging ban by the Chinese government is very good news."

After all, she pointed out, even if captive breeding was successful, "pandas cannot be reintroduced to habitat which is not there".

Zhang Hemin, director of a panda centre in the central province of Sichuan, told the the Wen Hui Daily he was unsure if Viagra would help.

"We tried to give them Chinese medicine in the mid-1990s," he said.

"As a result, the sex drive of the pandas did improve but they also became hot-tempered and attacked the females. That obviously wasn't so good and we had to end the experiment."

Mr Zhang said: "The real problem is that many pandas do not know how to mate."

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