What? What?

FDA regulators have added “sudden hearing loss” to the list of possible side-effects for erectile-dysfunction drugs. In one-third of the cases, the hearing loss was temporary, but in the rest of the cases the loss is ongoing. Although the FDA reports that the condition only appears in about 1 out of 1 million users, FDA warnings are considered by some to represent only a fraction of actual problems. Pfizer and Lilly are defending the safety of their drugs, of course.