Fake Cialis linked to dangerously low blood sugar

An unusual outbreak of dangerously low blood sugar has been traced to illegal anti-impotence drugs and herbal remedies contaminated with a drug for diabetics, doctors warn.

Between Jan. 1 and May 26, 2008, 150 non-diabetic patients with severe hypoglycemia were admitted to public hospital in Singapore. There were four deaths, and seven patients remained comatose, Dr. Kok Onn Lee of National University Hospital in Singapore report in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

All of the patients except one were men, and they ranged in age from 19 to 97, with an average age of 51.

Swiss Allege Price Fixing on Viagra and Cialis

Swiss authorities have accused Pfizer and Eli Lilly of conspiring to fix prices for Viagra and Cialis. The news has created the best Bloomberg headline ever: “Pfizer, Lilly, Bayer Operated Erection-Drug Cartel, Swiss Say.”

A couple of days ago BNET noted that Pfizer and Lilly appear to have frozen Bayer’s Levitra out of the market. The two ED brands have come to dominate global sales of penis pills. This was my explanation:

The Future Looks Bright For Cialis

The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has issued a statement regarding its erectile dysfunction medication Cialis and are extremely bullish about its future prospects and the possibility of gaining a greater market share of the world wide impotence drugs market. In the first three financial quarters of 2008 Cialis has already generated over $1 billion in sales for Eli Lilly and it looks like this year will be a record year. The Cialis drug is now available in over 100 different countries worldwide and has managed to gain the largest market share in twenty of them.

Improve your love life with generic Cialis or Viagra

Generic drugs wear this label because they reach the market under their chemical or generic name. This means that they are identical to the brand name drugs in everything but the name. The FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration) verifies all generic drugs to offer a guarantee that they treat the illness with the same safety, effectiveness and strength levels as their brand name equivalent.

Generic drugs manufacturers must get WHO’s (World Health Organization) approval. Sometimes, the same pharmaceutical company that makes the brand drug also produces its generic version; in other cases, the company specializes in producing generic drugs.

Cialis May Help Ease Pulmonary Hypertension

Cialis (tadalafil), a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction, appears effective in treating pulmonary hypertension, researchers report.

Pulmonary hypertension is caused by high blood pressure in the arteries that supply the lungs with blood. People who suffer from the condition can become tired, dizzy and short of breath, because the arteries feeding the lungs constrict and reduce the supply of oxygenated blood being circulating throughout the body.

But Cialis “was found to improve exercise capacity, health-related quality of life, delay time to clinical worsening, and improve hemodynamic [blood-linked] parameters of disease severity,” said lead researcher Dr. Robyn J. Barst, a professor of pediatrics at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City. The drug was also well-tolerated, she added.

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