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New ‘discreet’ Viagra Launched ending Embarrassment Of Blue Pill
The makers of Viagra are set to introduce a new ‘discrete’ form of the drug that will replace the iconic – and quickly recognisable – little blue pill.
The distinctive diamond-shaped tablets might soon be changed by a pink, rectangle-shaped ‘wafer’ that dissolves on the tongue, meaning it does not need to be taken with water.
About half of guys over 40 suffer erectile dysfunction in the UK and last year there was a record 4.57 million prescriptions for Viagra on the NHS.
The drug first pertained to the market in the 1990s after being developed by the American pharmaceutical business Pfizer.
It was very first developed in the 1980s as a cardiovascular disease medication, however trial individuals saw it had an uncommon adverse effects – regular erections.
Now, Pfizer spin-off Viatris, which owns the Viagra name and brand, has actually gotten a hallmark in the UK for the brand-new kind of the drug, Viagra ODF.
Viatris has actually already launched the Viagra ODF in Canada and promoted it as being ‘thin and discreet’ which may be more effective for many clients.
The unique tablets – which can trigger humiliation for some clients – has actually been transformed and a brand-new dissolvable type might be available to Brits in the next five years. Stock image
‘Tablets are not always tolerable to patients and likewise sometimes the size of tablets might put patients off having them,’ Thorrun Govind, pharmacist and health professional, told The Telegraph.
She included: ‘Some guys might still be finding the principle of having Viagr humiliating, but I would hope that guys’s health and conversations about sexual health have moved on considering that Viagra was first created.’
Ms Govind believes this brand-new design is a ‘favorable advance’.
The new dissolvable medication is thought to most likely pertained to the UK imminently.
Rebecca Anderson-Smith, partner and chartered trade mark lawyer at Mewburn Ellis, informed the newspaper that the trademark application is a ‘excellent indication’ it will be offered within the next five years.
She described trade mark registrations can be cancelled if they are not used for a continuous period of five years or more after registration. As an outcome, it seems Viatris intends to introduce the product within the next couple of years.
However, giving a hallmark would not guarantee the ODF could be sold and it would have to be authorized by the Medicines & Healthcare items Regulatory Agency first.
It’s expected to cost the same as the tablet variation and to be offered in the very same doses.
A total of 4.57 million prescriptions for sildenafil, more typically known by the trademark name Viagra, and other types of impotency drugs under the trademark name Cialis and Levitra, were dispensed by the health service in 2023
This follows dodgy Viagra was discovered to be Britain’s most significant fake drug after more than ₤ 6.2 million of phony blue pill were seized by UK regulators in 2023.
More materials of the erectile dysfunction drug were found than knock-off variations of painkillers like morphine.
Health officials said online retailers flouting regulations lagged the counterfeit materials with most being imported from nations like India without an appropriate licence.
Data, from UK regulator The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), reveal 2.6 million doses of sildenafil, the generic name for the medication best called Viagra, were seized last year.
Another half-million doses of tadalafil, another erectile dysfunction drug offered under the brand Cialis worth ₤ 1.2 million were likewise taken.
While all medications bring prospective side impacts drugs from unreliable sources might either not work or bring additional components or contaminants like heavy metals or other drugs that might be dangerous.