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Viagra can treat pulmonary hypertension

BOSTON, July 27 viagra is being used to treat not only erectile dysfunction, but also pulmonary hypertension, according to a U.S. researcher.

The drug may have potential for treating several other conditions such as mountain sickness and Raynaud’s phenomenon, reports the August issue of Harvard Men’s Men’s health Watch.

viagra is now marketed under the name Revatio for pulmonary hypertension — an uncommon but serious disorder of high pressure in the blood vessels leading to the lungs, the newsletter said.

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VIAGRA USE ‘NO LONGER TABOO

The number of prescriptions being written out in Gloucestershire for men with impotence is on the rise.GPs dished out more than 18,300 prescriptions last year, up from 16,500 in 2005/06.

With eight tablets of viagra costing as much as £46.99, the bill to the NHS is running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The figures were released this week by the Prescription Pricing Authority, which bills all 150 primary care trusts in England.

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Viagra has been associated with minor visual impairment before but now it is not so minor any longer. In 2005, reports of blindness among men using the drug have been probed by federal health officials. They however cautioned that the vision loss can be linked to the same illnesses that are direct to impotence.

Developed by Pfizer, Sildenafil Citrate or commonly known as Viagra is a drug used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction or also known as impotence and pulmonary arterial hypertension or PAH. Its primary competitors on the market are tadalafil (Cialis), and vardenafil (Levitra). It is now primarily taken for medication to allow adequate sexual stimulation, relaxes the blood vessels of the penis and helps erection.

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 22 — The FDA has approved label revisions for PDE5 inhibitors to reflect an association with a small number of patients developing a sudden hearing loss, both with and without vestibular symptoms.

The FDA said it found 29 reports of sudden hearing loss, sometimes temporary, associated with the erectile dysfunction agents after scouring the Adverse Event Reporting System. The search was triggered by a case report in the April 2007 issue of the Journal of Laryngology & Otology that discussed the hearing loss of a man taking (more…)

In the year 1998 Pfizer first launched Viagra, this drug was then the only known treatment for Erectile Dysfunction. With Viagra Pfizer set foot on the uncharted territory of medicines on Sexual disorders. But in the past decade the world of medicine has seen a lot of advancement and now there are a lot of pharmaceutical companies that have researched new medicines. These companies are vying for a share of the market over which previously Pfizer had complete monopoly.