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A New York state man was banned by a federal judge from displaying a replica missile bearing the Viaga slogan due to a trademark violation. U.S. District Judge William Pauley said in his ruling Tuesday Arye Sachs, 49, of West Hempstead, violated drugmaker Pfizer's trademark by towing a 25-foot replica missile emblazoned with Viva Viagra past the corporation's headquarters in New York, Long Island Newsday reported Thursday. Sachs said the incident was aimed at getting attention for his...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Tuesday it had halted a trial of the drug sildenafil for patients with sickle cell disease, saying the drug caused serious medical problems.The trial was testing the safety and effectiveness of sildenafil, sold by Pfizer as Viagra and Revatio, as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with sickle cell disease, said the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).Patients without sickle cell disease taking the sildenafil --...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial testing a drug treatment for pulmonary hypertension in adults with sickle cell disease nearly one year early due to safety concerns. In an interim review of safety data from 33 participants who completed 16 weeks of treatment, researchers found that, compared to participants on placebo (dummy pill), participants taking sildenafil (Revatio) were significantly more likely to...
Local authorities in Majorna, Sweden, must subsidize a 30-year-old impotent man's Viagra prescription, a court ruled. The County Administrative Court ruled in favor of the man, who argued having sex is essential to a reasonable quality of life, The Local reported Saturday. An assistance program in Majorna had denied the man's original request because Viagra, a drug used to treat erectile disfunction, was not included on a list of subsidized medicines. The court left open the issue of how...
In a major legal victory for pharmaceutical monolith Pfizer, a Canadian court ruled on Thursday that the company's patent for Viagra would remain valid, rebuffing attempts by generic drug manufacturer Novopharm to produce a cheaper version of the popular sex-enhancing drug.The decision is important both as a symbolic and precedent-setting triumph for all manufacturers of name-brand pharmaceuticals.In his comments on the proceedings, Judge Michael Kelen said that Novopharm's legal team had...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the nationwide voluntary recall of Stamina-Rx-brand dietary supplement due to a safety hazard. Officials said Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Norcross, Ga., initiated the recall after the FDA found the product, described as a sexual stimulant for men, contained undeclared benzamidenafil, the same therapeutic class of active pharmaceutical ingredients found in sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil. Benzamidenafil is not FDA-approved, and poses a...
Athletes could be putting their lives at risk by doping themselves with powerful prescription drugs, a leading academic has warned. Professor Declan Naughton, Professor of Biomolecular Sciences at Kingston University in South West London, cautioned sportsmen and women against trying to improve their performance by taking drugs known as nitrites without clinical supervision. Speaking at a conference on drug-taking in sport, he warned that they could suffer a range of side effects from...
Robert F. Furchgott, whose research earned him a share of a Nobel Prize and helped lead to the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died, a daughter said. Susan Furchgott said her father died Tuesday in Seattle, The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., reported Saturday. He was 92. The elder Furchgott was a pharmacologist who, with Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad, shared the 1998 Nobel for physiology or medicine after proving nitric oxide affected blood pressure and blood flow. Furchgott's discovery that...
A new program announced on Thursday by the U.S. drug company Pfizer Inc. is allowing people who have lost their jobs and health insurance keep taking some widely prescribed Pfizer medications for free for up to a year, the Associated Press reported.The program even includes the popular cholesterol drug Lipitor and the sexual dysfunction aid Viagra.Pfizer will make more than 70 of its prescription drugs available at no cost to unemployed, uninsured Americans, who lost jobs since Jan. 1 and...
Scientists in the United States have produced a study indicating a new generation of anti-impotency drugs that are rubbed into the skin could prove more effective than traditional pill-based medications like Viagra.The new technique involves tiny objects called nanoparticles that were rubbed onto rats which researchers believe could also be used to help humans.The nanoparticles are applied directly to the problem area and absorbed directly into the skin, releasing the anti-erectile chemical...
