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  • Founded Date September 4, 1915
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New ‘discreet’ Viagra Launched ending Embarrassment Of Blue Pill

The makers of Viagra are set to introduce a new ‘discrete’ kind of the drug that will change the renowned – and immediately recognisable – little blue pill.

The distinct diamond-shaped tablets might soon be replaced by a pink, rectangular ‘wafer’ that liquifies on the tongue, implying 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 came 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 heart disease medication, but trial participants discovered it had an uncommon negative effects – regular erections.

Now, Pfizer spin-off Viatris, which owns the Viagra name and brand, has actually used for a hallmark in the UK for the brand-new form of the drug, Viagra ODF.

Viatris has already released the Viagra ODF in Canada and promoted it as being ‘thin and discreet’ which may be preferable for numerous consumers.

The unique tablets – which can trigger shame for some clients – has actually been reinvented and a new dissolvable type may be readily available to Brits in the next 5 years. Stock image

‘Tablets are not always tolerable to patients and likewise sometimes the size of tablets may put clients off having them,’ Thorrun Govind, pharmacist and health professional, informed The Telegraph.

She added: ‘Some men might still be the concept of having Viagr humiliating, but I would hope that guys’s health and conversations about sexual health have carried on given that Viagra was very first formulated.’

Ms Govind thinks this brand-new style is a ‘positive step forward’.

The brand-new dissolvable medication is believed to most likely pertained to the UK imminently.

Rebecca Anderson-Smith, partner and chartered trade mark lawyer at Mewburn Ellis, told the paper that the trademark application is a ‘excellent indicator’ it will be readily available within the next 5 years.

She discussed trade mark registrations can be cancelled if they are not utilized for a constant period of five years or more after registration. As a result, it seems Viatris plans to release the product within the next couple of years.

However, granting a hallmark would not guarantee the ODF could be sold and it would have to be approved by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency first.

It’s anticipated to cost the like the tablet variation and to be available in the very same doses.

An overall of 4.57 million prescriptions for sildenafil, more frequently understood by the brand Viagra, and other kinds of impotency drugs offered under the brand names Cialis and Levitra, were dished out by the health service in 2023

This comes after dodgy Viagra was discovered to be Britain’s most significant counterfeit drug after more than ₤ 6.2 million of phony blue tablet were seized by UK regulators in 2023.

More supplies of the erectile dysfunction drug were discovered than knock-off variations of pain relievers like morphine.

Health officials stated online sellers 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 products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), show 2.6 million dosages of sildenafil, the generic name for the medication best known as Viagra, were taken last year.

Another half-million dosages of tadalafil, another erectile dysfunction drug offered under the brand name Cialis worth ₤ 1.2 million were also taken.

While all medications carry potential adverse effects drugs from unreliable sources might either not work or bring extra ingredients or impurities like heavy metals or other drugs that could be harmful.

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