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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 change the iconic - and instantly recognisable - little blue pill.

The unique diamond-shaped tablets could quickly be changed by a pink, rectangle-shaped 'wafer' that liquifies on the tongue, indicating it does not need to be taken with water.

About half of males 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 first concerned the marketplace in the 1990s after being developed by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

It was very first established in the 1980s as a cardiovascular disease medication, however trial participants discovered it had an uncommon negative effects - frequent erections.

Now, Pfizer spin-off Viatris, which owns the Viagra name and brand name, has actually made an application 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 more suitable for many clients.

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

'Tablets are not constantly bearable to clients and also sometimes the size of tablets may put clients off having them,' Thorrun Govind, pharmacist and health professional, told The Telegraph.

She added: 'Some males may still be discovering the principle of having Viagr awkward, however I would hope that males's health and conversations about sexual health have actually moved on considering that Viagra was very first created.'

Ms Govind thinks this new design is a 'favorable step forward'.

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

Rebecca Anderson-Smith, partner and chartered trade mark attorney at Mewburn Ellis, told the paper that the is a 'excellent indication' it will be available within the next 5 years.

She discussed trade mark registrations can be cancelled if they are not used for a constant period of 5 years or more after registration. As an outcome, it seems Viatris means to launch the product within the next few years.

However, approving a hallmark would not guarantee the ODF might be sold and it would need to be approved by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency initially.

It's expected to cost the very same as the tablet variation and to be offered in the exact same doses.

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

This follows dodgy Viagra was discovered to be Britain's biggest counterfeit drug after more than ₤ 6.2 countless phony blue tablet were taken by UK regulators in 2023.

More supplies of the erectile dysfunction drug were discovered than knock-off versions of painkillers like morphine.

Health authorities stated online merchants flouting regulations lagged the counterfeit products with many being imported from countries 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 name Cialis worth ₤ 1.2 million were also taken.

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