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New ‘discreet’ Viagra Launched ending Embarrassment Of Blue Pill

The makers of Viagra are set to release a brand-new ‘discrete’ kind of the drug that will replace the renowned – and instantly recognisable – little blue pill.

The unique diamond-shaped tablets could soon be changed by a pink, rectangular ‘wafer’ that dissolves on the tongue, indicating it does not need to be taken with water.

About half of men 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 came to the marketplace in the 1990s after being developed by the American pharmaceutical business Pfizer.

It was very first developed in the 1980s as a heart illness medication, however trial individuals discovered it had an unusual negative effects – regular erections.

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

Viatris has currently launched the Viagra ODF in Canada and marketed it as being ‘thin and discreet’ which may be more effective for lots of consumers.

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

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

She added: ‘Some men might still be finding the principle of having Viagr humiliating, however I would hope that guys’s health and conversations about sexual health have actually proceeded given that Viagra was very first created.’

Ms Govind believes this new design is a ‘favorable step forward’.

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

Rebecca Anderson-Smith, partner and chartered trade mark attorney at Mewburn Ellis, told the newspaper that the hallmark application is a ‘great indication’ it will be readily available within the next 5 years.

She described trade mark registrations can be cancelled if they are not used for a constant duration of 5 years or more after registration. As an outcome, it appears Viatris to introduce the product within the next few years.

However, giving a hallmark would not guarantee the ODF could be offered and it would need to be authorized by the Medicines & Healthcare items Regulatory Agency initially.

It’s expected to cost the same as the tablet version and to be readily available in the exact same dosages.

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

This follows dodgy Viagra was found to be Britain’s greatest counterfeit drug after more than ₤ 6.2 countless fake blue pill were taken by UK regulators in 2023.

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

Health officials stated online retailers flouting regulations lagged the fake supplies with the majority of being imported from nations like India without an appropriate 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 in 2015.

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

While all medications carry prospective negative effects drugs from unreliable sources might either not work or bring extra ingredients or pollutants like heavy metals or other drugs that could be unsafe.