New ‚discreet‘ Viagra Launched ending Embarrassment Of Blue Pill
The makers of Viagra are set to introduce a brand-new ‚discrete‘ kind of the drug that will replace the renowned – and instantly recognisable – little blue pill.
The distinct diamond-shaped tablets could soon be replaced by a pink, rectangular ‚wafer‘ that liquifies on the tongue, indicating 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 concerned the marketplace in the 1990s after being invented by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
It was first developed in the 1980s as a heart illness medication, but trial individuals noticed it had an uncommon side effect – frequent erections.
Now, Pfizer spin-off Viatris, which owns the Viagra name and brand, has made an application for a hallmark in the UK for the brand-new form of the drug, Viagra ODF.
Viatris has actually currently introduced the Viagra ODF in Canada and marketed it as being ‚thin and discreet‘ which may be preferable for many clients.
The distinct tablets – which can trigger humiliation for some clients – has been reinvented and a new dissolvable type might be offered to Brits in the next five years. Stock image
‚Tablets are not constantly bearable to patients and likewise sometimes the size of tablets may put patients off having them,‘ Thorrun Govind, pharmacist and health specialist, informed The Telegraph.
She added: ‚Some men might still be finding the concept of having Viagr embarrassing, but I would hope that males’s health and conversations about sexual health have actually moved on since Viagra was very first formulated.‘
Ms Govind thinks this brand-new design is a ‚positive step forward‘.
The brand-new dissolvable medication is believed to most likely concerned the UK imminently.
Rebecca Anderson-Smith, partner and chartered trade mark lawyer at Mewburn Ellis, told the that the trademark application is a ‚good sign‘ it will be offered within the next five years.
She explained 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 introduce the product within the next few years.
However, approving a hallmark would not ensure the ODF could be sold and it would have to be approved by the Medicines & Healthcare items Regulatory Agency first.
It’s expected to cost the like the tablet variation and to be offered in the very same doses.
A total of 4.57 million prescriptions for sildenafil, more frequently known by the brand name Viagra, and other kinds 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 counterfeit drug after more than ₤ 6.2 countless fake blue pill were seized by UK regulators in 2023.
More products of the erectile dysfunction drug were found than knock-off variations of painkillers like morphine.
Health officials stated online merchants flouting policies were behind the fake materials with a lot of being imported from nations like India without a proper licence.
Data, from UK regulator The Medicines and Healthcare items Regulatory Agency (MHRA), show 2.6 million dosages 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 offered under the brand Cialis worth ₤ 1.2 million were also seized.
While all medications bring potential side results drugs from unreliable sources may either not work or carry additional components or pollutants like heavy metals or other drugs that could be unsafe.
