Viagra’s now a sports drug?
Q:I heard on the news that Viagra might actually improve an athlete’s performance. How does that work and do you think it is true?
A: The World Antidoping Agency is currently funding a study to determine if athletes taking Viagra could potentially have an advantage over their competition. And the competition is everything from bike racing to mountain climbing.
This is how it works: the active ingredient in Viagra helps to relax blood vessels in the body and this can help to provide a more efficient blood flow and use of oxygen by the body. That mechanism has long helped to improve blood flow to the penis in men with erectile dysfunction.
Woman calls police after husband takes Viagra
An 82-year-old Italian man who took a Viagra pill scared his wife so much she called the police.
His worried spouse feared he would have a heart attack.
The man’s wife was quoted by police as saying, “So much passion at the age of 82, with all the aches and pains he has, could prove lethal.”
Police say the man was “furious” when they arrived but calmed down after relatives arrived.
Police say they left the family to resolve the situation.
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.
United licenses drug indication to Lilly
Are you ready for an erectile dysfunction drug revamped to treat high blood pressure? Eli Lilly and United Therapeutics are betting big on it. The two companies have inked a deal to commercialize the active ingredient in Cialis–tadalafil–for pulmonary arterial hypertension. That indication is currently under review by watchdogs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the E.U.
Under the deal, United Therapeutics will pony up $150 million for exclusive rights to tadalafil for the hypertension use in the U.S. The company will also get a manufacturing-and-supply deal for its money: Lilly will make the molecule for United Therapeutics and will handle all the regulatory and patent details.
Viagra for women? It might not be too far off.
Or the past 10 years, men have boosted their sex lives with Viagra.
But how far off is a magic drug for women whose libidos have fizzled out?
It may be coming soon, say the makers of a new medication aimed at kick-starting a woman’s sex drive.
LibiGel, a testosterone gel produced by BioSante Pharmaceuticals, is currently undergoing Phase 3 clinical trials in medical centers across the country, including The Medical Center for Female Sexuality in Purchase.
Women who are testing the gel, which is rubbed into the skin on the upper arm, have all gone through menopause, either surgically or naturally, and have experienced a decline in sex drive.