New ‘discreet’ Viagra Launched ending Embarrassment Of Blue Pill

The makers of Viagra are set to launch a brand-new ‘discrete’ kind of the drug that will replace the iconic – and immediately recognisable – little blue tablet.

The distinctive diamond-shaped tablets could soon be replaced by a pink, rectangular ‘wafer’ that dissolves on the tongue, implying it does not require 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 initially pertained to the market in the 1990s after being created by the American pharmaceutical business Pfizer.

It was first established in the 1980s as a cardiovascular disease medication, but trial individuals saw it had an unusual negative effects – frequent erections.

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

Viatris has currently introduced the Viagra ODF in Canada and advertised it as being ‘thin and discreet’ which might be more effective for lots of customers.

The distinctive tablets – which can cause embarrassment for some patients – has been transformed and a brand-new dissolvable type might be readily available to Brits in the next five years. Stock image

‘Tablets are not always bearable to patients and likewise in some cases the size of tablets may put patients off having them,’ Thorrun Govind, pharmacist and health specialist, told The Telegraph.

She added: ‘Some males might still be finding the idea of having Viagr embarrassing, but I would hope that guys’s health and discussions about sexual health have actually moved on because Viagra was very first formulated.’

Ms Govind thinks this brand-new design is a ‘favorable advance’.

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 newspaper that the trademark application is a ‘great sign’ it will be offered within the next 5 years.

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

However, giving a would not guarantee the ODF might be sold and it would have to be authorized by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency initially.

It’s expected to cost the like the tablet variation and to be readily available in the same dosages.

A total of 4.57 million prescriptions for sildenafil, more frequently known by the trademark name Viagra, and other types of impotency drugs sold under the trademark name Cialis and Levitra, were dished out by the health service in 2023

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

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

Health officials stated online retailers flouting policies were behind the counterfeit supplies with a lot of being imported from nations like India without an appropriate licence.

Data, from UK regulator The Medicines and Healthcare items Regulatory Agency (MHRA), reveal 2.6 million dosages of sildenafil, the generic name for the medication best referred to as Viagra, were taken in 2015.

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

While all medications bring potential side effects drugs from unreliable sources might either not work or bring additional active ingredients or contaminants like heavy metals or other drugs that could be unsafe.