Question:
What's a great article about the next best thing to a cure for Erectile Dysfunction?
Answer:
This is a great article about the next best thing to a cure for ED.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/533116
In short, it says:
Nearly a Cure for ED?
For now, it is called hMaxi-K. Suitably enough for an erection
treatment, it is a form of gene therapy called naked DNA. Its DNA
carries a human genetic code into target cells. When the cell reads
this code, it makes a protein. In the case of hMaxi-K, it is a protein
that tells smooth muscles to relax.
That is why hMaxi-K is supposed to help erectile dysfunction, which
happens when smooth muscle in the penis won't relax to let blood flow
into the penis.
Arnold Melman, MD, chairs the department of urology at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine. He's also co-founder of Ion Channel Innovations,
the company that's developing hMaxi-K. At the urology meeting, Melman
reported the results of the first human trial of hMaxi-K.
In this human study, 11 men with erectile dysfunction received
injections of the gene therapy directly into the penis. Because this
was the first human study, the doses used were smaller than those
expected to have a true effect on erections.
The study was successful in two ways. First, it was safe. Second, two
men who received higher doses of hMaxi-K had greatly improved erections
-- which occurred only during sexual arousal -- for six months after a
single treatment.
"Let me tell you what the patient who responded for six months said. He
said he felt like a kid again," Melman said at the news conference.
"With any current erectile dysfunction drug, you have to plan to have
sex in order to give the drug time to work. With this, you don't have
to plan sex. This lets you get normal erections whenever you are
aroused. That is the big advantage."
