Drug and prosthetic therapies for ED step forward

At the 2004 AUA annual meeting, researchers reported that daily administration of a phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor improves chances of recovery from post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction-good news about a difficult-to-treat patient population. The bad news was a finding that herbal ED treatments purchased over the Internet are often ineffective, potentially dangerous, and occasionally tainted with active, unlabeled PDE-5 inhibitors.