How Gum Disease Can Lead To Male Impotence

Once in the bloodstream, this plaque-causing bacteria can attach itself to the walls of the arteries or existing plaque in the arteries and lead to coronary artery disease.  When blood flow is constricted, due to plaque build up in the arteries, the heart must pump harder to move blood through these arteries and blood vessels.

In the same study that tracked men with periodontal disease,  2.1% of respondents without Male Impotence had advanced periodontal disease, 9.8% of the subjects had mild Male Impotence and the same advanced periodontal disease. The most recent  number was 15.8%, and it was representing the percent of persons with moderate or severe Male Impotence and advanced periodontal disease.

This study demonstrates the human mouth is full of bacteria, and people who do not brush their teeth regularly, or visit their dentist to remove plaque tend to have higher levels of bacteria  and are more likely to have bleeding,swollen gums and gingivitis, which can lead to periodontal disease. 

These openings in the gum line or on the gums are a perfect host to allow dangerous bacteria to enter the bloodstream and potentially cause serious health problems, such as heart disease or Male Impotence.

Dutch Chemist Jailed Over Fake Cialis Lab

A chemist from Fulham who hoped to flood the UK with homemade illegal erectile dysfunction medication has been jailed for 40 months.

Chistiaan Winkel aged 32 left his job at University College London to make fake Cialis tablets. The Old Bailey heard the Dutchman set up a laboratory in an east London flat where he also planned to make the banned drug ecstasy.

He admitted conspiracy to defraud Lilly UK and conspiracy to manufacture ecstasy. Winkel imported a pill-making machine and precursor chemicals from China, producing samples to show a "potential dealer".

However the dealer proved to be an undercover police officer who had got involved after Winkel unwittingly made contact with investigators on a website. He offered them pills for male impotence.

The judge, Recorder Douglas Day, QC, told him: "You are a highly-intelligent man with great talent.”It is a tragedy to find you here." Det Insp Doug Blackwood, from City of London Police, said after the trial: "The millionaire lifestyle he hoped this crime would fund must now seem a very long way away."

Winkel's runner Safa Ba Seidi aged 36, of Tottenham, north London, admitted conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to supply ecstasy. He was jailed for 21 months.

When police searched his home they found legitimate substances used in Winkel's chemical import business, along with illegal ecstasy ingredients. Winkel's girlfriend, Yuly Sandoval Mora aged 33, of Holloway, north London, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud. She was given an eight-month suspended sentence.

Mick Deats, of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHPRA), said: "This is a rare case of counterfeit medicines being manufactured in the UK. "We generally find that counterfeit medicines found in this country have originated from the Far East."

Has erectile dysfunction medication helped to save the Rhinoceros and other endangered species?

As an upright environmentalist kind of guy, I was wondering if the rising popularity of erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, etc, has caused a corresponding subsidence in the demand for powdered rhinoceros horn and other aphrodisiacs made from the body parts of endangered animals.

Predictions about the benefit of Viagra on rhinos and other endangered species have arisen for around 13 years.  Whilst there are people who believe that rhino horn will help to restore virility, it is mainly limited to groups in India, Thailand, and Laos.

Rhino horn has actually been a major substance within Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries, and there are those who have credited rhino horn with the potency to cure an unusually wide array of maladies, from headaches to pus-filled boils--and even devil possession. However, a study carried out by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), published the results of a pharmalogical study conducted by researchers at Hoffmann-LaRoche in The Environmentalist.

The study "found no evidence that rhino horn has any medicinal effect as an antipyretic and would be ineffective in reducing fever, a common usage in much of Asia." The use has even been compared to chewing one’s finger nails in terms of health benefits. Whilst TCM is a major cause for the use of rhino horn, it is also used for dagger horns and as cups for wine.

Frank and William von Hippel in a 1998 letter to Science, Frank, a biologist, conjectured that Viagra could eliminate demand for "animal potency products": "After all," he wrote, "the cost of Viagra is trivial compared to that of rhino horn." In a 2002 follow up, he and his psychologist sibling published a table listing nine types of threatened critter "collected for TCM treatments for ED." The fine print clarified that two of the nine, namely rhinos and tigers, in fact weren't collected for this purpose. Westerners-apparently including, as of 1998, Frank von Hippel-just thought they were.

Therefore, TCM does acknowledge some aphrodisiacs. They've been derived from sea cucumbers, pipefishes, seahorses, geckos, deer, and pinnipeds. Most of the trade in endangered species has been banned. However, indications may be gleaned from the few cases where such dealing remains legal. According to the von Hippels, sales of one TCM aphrodisiac, antler velvet from Alaskan reindeer, dropped sharply following Viagra's introduction, and the market for seals, prized for their genitalia, collapsed a little later. Critics questioned how much of this was due to competition from ED drugs, but in a 2005 survey underwritten by Pfizer, maker of Viagra, the brothers found Hong Kong men were abandoning TCM impotence treatments.

The rhino population has now improved, after it was previously in decline for 20 years. Conservation efforts, not pharmaceuticals, have made the difference. With the increasing interest in TCM, poaching pressure remains intense.

Asians are still using rhino horn to combat fever. TCM practitioners are adamant of the benefits of rhino horn. One scientific study of the substance claimed it was actually effective in reducing fever, but only at extremely high doses. However, demand for rhino horn are thought to be with the upper class, wealthy Asian population, and not the majority as rhino horn is quite expensive in comparison to other alternatives.

Fake viagra seized in Longbridge raid

Thousands of Viagra tablets of what were thought to be fake were found in a raid on a house in Birmingham.
Police swooped on a house in Rednal Mill Lane, Longbridge, in conjunction with the Medicines & Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency (MHPRA) at 7.30am 28 Feb 2011

Officers from Longbridge, who executed the warrant, said they found up to 20,000 tablets, which could have been sold illegally. The investigation is being led by experts from the MHPRA, who will decide whether to mount a prosecution. 

Details of the operation were revealed on social networking site Twitter. An officer wrote: “Officers in Longbridge have carried out a warrant with partners from the Medicines & Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency. “During the warrant around 15 to 20,000 tablets of a Viagra substitute, set to be sold illegally, were recovered from a residential address.”

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Fake Viagra caught being smuggle into Coventry postal hub

A BID to smuggle more than two million fake or unlicensed Viagra tablets through Coventry's international postal hub flopped, figures released this week revealed. The haul of 2.1 million tablets was uncovered by UK Border Agency officials at Royal Mail's hub in Baginton. The Viagra had been ordered online by British customers.

Officials seized a total of 8.5 million fake or unlicensed tablets of the erectile dysfunction drug during 2010, with six million alone discovered at Heathrow Airport. A further 116,000 tablets were seized at Birmingham Airport. The total haul had a value of around £13 million.

Brodie Clark, UK Border Agency's head of border force, said fake Viagra was often made in laboratories in the Far East, and could contain harmful ingredients. He added genuine but unlicensed tablets were often imported from India. He said while the Viagra was genuine, its unlicensed status meant it had not gone through the rigorous tests required under UK law.

"This massive haul makes it clear just how seriously we take the smuggling of fake and unlicensed medicines," Mr Clark said. "As well as stopping drugs, weapons and illegal immigrants from reaching the UK, our officers have a vital role to play in protecting British consumers and businesses from the trade in black market medicines and other goods.”Smugglers are only out to make a profit," he added. "These goods are often dangerous and the proceeds can be used to fuel serious organised crime."

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Curling hero fined $30,000 in U.S. for fake Viagra sales

A B.C. hero of the Canadian Paralympics team has been fined $30,000 in the U.S. for his part in a father and son scheme smuggling fake Viagra and bogus Cialis into Canada for online and nightclub sales.
Jim Armstrong, 59, was arrested in Blaine, Wash., less than a month after skipping the national Paralympic wheelchair curling team to a gold medal in the 2010 Games.
U.S. Federal Court Judge Ricardo Martinez said Monday he seriously considered sending Armstrong, a retired dentist, to jail.
"You are a trained medical professional," Martinez said in a Seattle courtroom. "You knew better."
Minutes before Martinez slapped Armstrong with the fine — and scheduled a hearing in April at which Armstrong could be ordered to pay up to $44,000 in restitution to drug companies — the judge imposed a jail sentence on Armstrong's son, Gregory, 28, of a year and a day, plus a $5,000 fine.
Armstrong had told an investigating officer Gregory sold the fake erectile-dysfunction drugs in Vancouver-area nightclubs, and court heard Gregory was advertising the pills online.
"Not only [did] you put people at physical risk of harm, you put them at risk of death," Martinez told Gregory.
Drug testing was performed to determine pills seized from Armstrong were fake, but no tests were done to find out what was actually in them.
Martinez said Armstrong was less to blame than his son. Armstrong's lawyer, Richard Hansen, said his client was in "desperate financial straits," and was losing his Richmond home, which court heard was valued at $1.6 million.
"He can hardly buy groceries," Hansen told court, adding that Armstrong "was not profiting" from the scheme and that some packages retrieved from the mailbox contained legitimate goods.
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Last March 20, Armstrong was holding aloft a bouquet of flowers with one hand and raising his gold medal with the other as he sat in his wheelchair on the curling sheet with his Paralympian teammates after winning the final against Korea. His craggy face was beaming.
Armstrong appeared to embody the Paralympic ideal of triumph over adversity. He started curling at age eight, and competed as an able-bodied athlete six times at The Brier, twice as skip. He is the only curler to have won the Ross Harstone Award for Sportsmanship and Ability three times. He was president of the World Curling Players Association from 1997 to 1999. But in 2007 he suffered serious knee and back injuries in a car accident. He could no longer work as a dentist. He couldn't curl. But then he discovered a twist on the sport — and became a wheelchair curler, and a superstar of the sport.
Armstrong's downfall began in April when U.S. Customs agents in Los Angeles intercepted a package mailed from China containing 2,544 tablets labelled "Viagra" and 260 labelled "Cialis." The pills were determined to be counterfeit. The package, addressed to Armstrong's late wife Carleen, had been sent to a box at a Mail Boxes International outlet in Blaine rented under Carleen's name before she died of cancer in September 2009.
U.S. Customs Special Agent Zachary Timko used Federal Express to overnight the box of pills to Special Agent Jim Burkhardt of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, who is responsible for Washington state.
An employee at the outlet provided Burkhardt with a list of 22 parcels and boxes delivered to the Armstrongs' box over the previous year. The list showed large numbers of parcels arriving at the box, many from China and India where counterfeit drugs are mass produced. Armstrong and his son Greg both retrieved packages. The employee told Burkhardt she was very familiar with Armstrong, who picked up boxes once a week.
The scheme came crashing down on April 15 when Armstrong, unaware he was under surveillance, entered the mailbox outlet and asked for his packages. He checked the box of counterfeit pills and left the building.
"I confronted James Armstrong outside the store," Burkhardt said in an affidavit to U.S. Western District Court. "I placed Armstrong under arrest. Armstrong informed me that his son Gregory purchased the drugs and distributed [them] at clubs in the Vancouver area."
Ultimately, Armstrong told investigators he had smuggled the bogus drugs on "numerous other occasions . . . on behalf of his son."
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Court heard Monday that the Armstrongs had run their illegal enterprise for about three years. Both pleaded guilty.
Friends of Armstrong, a father of three, submitted letters to U.S. authorities testifying to his good character.
"Throughout the time that I have known Dr. Armstrong, I have been impressed with his honesty, integrity and strong family values," wrote Vancouver lawyer James Schuman. "I have not known Dr. Armstrong to act in any way that was . . . connected with criminality."
Tony Stevens, of the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal, wrote that he'd known Armstrong for more than 40 years.
"Jim carries a quiet strength about him, which was readily evident at all times that I observed him participate in sports, practise dentistry, and as a father managing a large, very active family.
"I have difficulty accepting that Jim would knowingly have been involved in the scheme that was depicted recently in the media. Such a situation makes little sense from what I know of Jim. It seemingly would also require me to accept that he would put at risk everything that he has accomplished in life."
Armstrong and his son are not facing charges in Canada.
"We were aware of the U.S. allegations and the charges," said Const. Michael McLaughlin of the Canadian Federal Border Integrity Program. "There was never sufficient evidence to charge in Canada."
The Canadian Curling Association disciplined Armstrong and he has met all the conditions of his punishment, said the association's Greg Sturmlaw. Armstrong is on the national wheelchair curling team, he added.
Armstrong left court Monday, having paid the $30,000, his lawyer said.
"The judge, he has a reputation for being fair and reasonable, and he showed it," Jim Armstrong told me later.

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Viagra Sales Online Soar in lead up to Valentine’s Day!

Sales for erectile dysfunction medication such as Viagra, Cialis and Levitra have increased rapidly over the weekend leading up to Valentines Day in 2011.



The firm Walters Kluwer Pharma Solutions revealed data showing that some 199,500 Viagra prescriptions were written in the week before Valentine’s Day 2010 in America, equating to more than 1.3 million Viagra tablets. That is more than 26% more than the lowest-use week of the year: the end of November when families traditionally start to gather to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, urologist and director of the San Diego Sexual Medicine centre at Alvarado Hospital, joked: “It’s not Valentine’s Day, its Viagra Day.” He said that: “Valentine’s Day is the one day in the 365-day calendar where interest in intimacy and romance is memorialized.”
Goldstein says there is nothing wrong with men looking for an extra ‘oomph’ on Valentine’s Day. He says that having sex on Valentine’s Day is something that many couples look forward to, like sex at Christmas or on a birthday.

Many men have cut back on spending and going out, but when it comes to Valentine’s Day, they have got themselves well prepared. Some have booked a table at a restaurant, while others are staying in for a cosy night with their partner. Others are staying at a hotel for the night, and some are even going away for the weekend.
The one thing they all have in common, is that they are all expecting a little something extra later on, and so have bought Viagra online to make sure it is a very special night for both of them.

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