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"Pink Viagra," an experimental pill claiming to boost a woman's sex drive, has been scrapped by German maker Boehringer Ingelheim after failing to convince US regulators that the pill actually worked. "The decision was not made lightly, considering the advanced stage of development," CEO Andreas Barner told Reuters on Friday. The company had hoped the pill would have been a potential windfall aimed at premenopausal women with a persistent lack of sex drive. The move marked the failure of the...
The drug industry's latest attempt to find a female equivalent to Viagra fell short in two separate studies, according to federal regulators on Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration is considering Boehringer Ingelheim's drug flibanserin for pre-menopausal women who experienced a lack in sexual desire, a market that drug makers have been targeting for years since the epic success of Viagra for men. The hunt for a female version of Viagra has proved elusive though, with many drugs failing...
Research by a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)Â professor shows an association between hearing loss and the use of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.Findings published May 18 in Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery indicate a potential for long-term hearing loss following use of Viagra, and possibly following use of other phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE-5i) drugs such as Cialis and Levitra, although results on those drugs are inconclusive."It appears...
Findings could have important implications for human health, agA joke among two Texas AgriLife Research scientists later turned into a fully-funded study that found Viagra can aid fetal development in female sheep. Female sheep (ewes) are an agriculturally important species, which can serve as an excellent animal model for studying the physiology of human pregnancy, the researchers said.Viagra (sildenafil citrate), which is used to treat male erectile dysfunction, enhanced blood flow in...
Men who buy fake internet drugs for erection problems can face significant risks from potentially hazardous contents and bypassing healthcare systems could leave associated problems like diabetes and high blood pressure undiagnosed. That's the warning just published online by IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.Medical and pharmaceutical experts from the UK, Sweden and USA carried out a detailed review of the growing problem of counterfeit drugs. Estimates suggest that up to...
Biotech firm Vivus revealed a new medication for erectile dysfunction on Monday that may be hitting pharmacy shelves in the near future. The new drug, called avanafil, is said to be effective in just 15 minutes, far faster than big market rivals Cialis and Viagra, according to AFP. Leland Wilson, CEO for Vivus, shined the spotlight on optimistic results for the class three investigational drug to treat male impotency. "The magnitude of success in the first 15 minutes was surprising," he said....
Compounds related to Viagra, which is already in clinical trials to prevent heart failure, may also counter the disease in a different way, according to a study published online today in the journal Circulation Research. The results hold promise for the design of a new drug class and for its potential use in combination with Viagra or beta blockers.In heart failure, which affects about 5.7 million Americans, the heart gradually loses the ability to pump with enough force to supply the body...
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 --...
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...
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...
