A female nurse clinician overseeing a drug trial in the early 1990s posed a question that she noticed the male volunteers were reluctant to address.
That is, save for one brave soul. Asked if there were any noticeable side-effects to the treatment he had been receiving, he confided the truth: he had been having robust erections throughout the night.
‘At this point many of the other men admitted they had, too,’ says Dr David Brown, one of the team of