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New ‘discreet’ Viagra Launched ending Embarrassment Of Blue Pill
The makers of Viagra are set to launch a new ‘discrete’ type of the drug that will change the renowned – and immediately recognisable – little blue tablet.
The unique diamond-shaped tablets might soon be changed by a pink, rectangular ‘wafer’ that liquifies on the tongue, meaning it does not require to be taken with water.
About half of guys over 40 suffer erectile dysfunction in the UK and in 2015 there was a record 4.57 million prescriptions for Viagra on the NHS.
The drug initially pertained to the marketplace in the 1990s after being created by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
It was first established in the 1980s as a heart disease medication, but trial participants observed it had an unusual side effect – frequent erections.
Now, Pfizer spin-off Viatris, which owns the Viagra name and brand, has looked for a hallmark in the UK for the new kind of the drug, Viagra ODF.
Viatris has already introduced the Viagra ODF in Canada and promoted it as being ‘thin and discreet’ which may be preferable for numerous consumers.
The distinctive tablets – which can trigger shame for some clients – has been reinvented and a new dissolvable type might be available to Brits in the next five years. Stock image
‘Tablets are not always tolerable to patients and also sometimes the size of tablets might put clients off having them,’ Thorrun Govind, pharmacist and health professional, informed The Telegraph.
She included: ‘Some males might still be finding the of having Viagr humiliating, but I would hope that guys’s health and conversations about sexual health have actually proceeded given that Viagra was very first developed.’
Ms Govind thinks this new design is a ‘positive step forward’.
The new dissolvable medication is believed to likely come to the UK imminently.
Rebecca Anderson-Smith, partner and chartered trade mark lawyer at Mewburn Ellis, informed the newspaper that the hallmark application is a ‘excellent indication’ it will be available within the next 5 years.
She described trade mark registrations can be cancelled if they are not utilized for a constant duration of five years or more after registration. As a result, it seems Viatris intends to release the product within the next couple of years.
However, approving a hallmark would not guarantee the ODF might be offered and it would need to be authorized by the Medicines & Healthcare items Regulatory Agency initially.
It’s expected to cost the like the tablet variation and to be readily available in the same dosages.
An overall of 4.57 million prescriptions for sildenafil, more commonly known by the brand Viagra, and other types of impotency drugs sold under the trademark name Cialis and Levitra, were dispensed by the health service in 2023
This comes after dodgy Viagra was discovered to be Britain’s greatest fake drug after more than ₤ 6.2 countless phony blue tablet were seized by UK regulators in 2023.
More materials of the erectile dysfunction drug were discovered than knock-off versions of pain relievers like morphine.
Health officials said online merchants flouting policies were behind the fake materials with most being imported from nations like India without a suitable licence.
Data, from UK regulator The Medicines and Healthcare items Regulatory Agency (MHRA), show 2.6 million doses of sildenafil, the generic name for the medication best called Viagra, were confiscated last year.
Another half-million doses of tadalafil, another erectile dysfunction drug sold under the brand Cialis worth ₤ 1.2 million were likewise seized.
While all medications carry potential adverse effects drugs from unreliable sources might either not work or bring additional ingredients or contaminants like heavy metals or other drugs that might be unsafe.