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Students tired of Viagra ads, get rich quick schemes and provocative offers from “the girl you met last night,” have a new weapon in the war against spam...
...Viagra may soon get some tough competition. GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer are on schedule to bring a drug called vardenafil (trade name: Levitra) to market in Europe later this year. Another drug, called tadalafil (Cialis), is also being launched there. Like Viagra, these new pills facilitate an erection by trapping more blood in the penis. Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, believes both new drugs infringe on its patent. The company lost its case in Europe; another lawsuit in the U.S. is pending...
Meanwhile, the uses for Viagra seem to be growing. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association two weeks ago showed that Viagra successfully counteracts some of the sexual side effects experienced by men who take Prozac or similar antidepressants. Researchers at Pfizer are also intrigued by reports that because it dilates blood vessels, Viagra may help reduce pulmonary hypertension, an often deadly and difficult-to-treat form of high blood pressure that affects the lungs...
...Viagra users are only getting younger. Five years ago, the typical patient was a married man in his 60s. Nowadays, he's still married but more likely to be in his 50s. One trend that has started to worry public-health officials, however, is the growing recreational use of Viagra in some settings. Gay men seem to be at the vanguard of this trend. Viagra, often in combination with illegal drugs like ecstasy, enables patrons of sex clubs to have sex with more partners, which increases their risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like syphilis and aids...
Despite the potential for abuse and the usual risks associated with any physical activity like sex, Viagra has been a boon to many men. "It is still the most patient-friendly method of treating erectile dysfunction," says Dr. Ira Sharlip, assistant clinical professor of urology at the University of California at San Francisco. Although Viagra doesn't work for everyone, it's what most patients want to try first, before turning to such alternatives as injections, vacuum pumps and surgical implants. Perhaps all those unsolicited e-mail come-ons are a small price to pay after...