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Viagra faces stiff competition
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Posted on 08/20/2003 10:13:48 AM PDT by Stew Padasso
Watch Out, Viagra: FDA Approves Similar Drug Levitra Approved By 50 Countries
UPDATED: 10:08 a.m. EDT August 20, 2003
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the sale of a second pill to treat erectile dysfunction.
It's called Levitra and it's in the same family as Viagra. Both work by targeting an enzyme important for maintaining an erection.
"In clinical trials, Levitra was shown to work quickly. More importantly, Levitra was shown to improve the sexual response for the majority of men the first time they took it, and it worked consistently over time," said Dr. Myron Murdock, a Levitra researcher.
Its appearance in pharmacies in the coming weeks is expected to spark a fierce battle in the billion-dollar-plus impotence market.
Roughly 30 million American men have some degree of impotence, but most do not seek medical therapy.
Levitra, produced by Bayer, has recently been selling in Europe and has been approved by 50 countries, according to the company. A third impotence pill -- Cialis -- has also won European approval and is expected to be in U.S. pharmacies later this year.
Like Viagra, Levitra is available only by prescription. It can be taken up to once a day, and it should not be prescribed to men who take nitrate-containing drugs or alpha blockers, which are sometimes prescribed for high blood pressure or prostate symptoms.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ed; fda
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To: Stew Padasso
Stiff competition, huh, lol.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:16:06 AM PDT
by
psjones
To: Stew Padasso
Levitra, produced by BayerInvestors should sit up and pay attention.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:18:10 AM PDT
by
putupon
(Whatever)
To: Stew Padasso
I once tried to swallow a Viagra pill...It got stuck in my throat....had a stiff neck for a week.....
Bada-bing...Bada-boom...
NeverGore :^)
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:18:22 AM PDT
by
nevergore
(Please return your seat trays and seat backs to their full and upright position....)
To: Stew Padasso
it's so hard to keep all these new drugs straight.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:20:09 AM PDT
by
dogbrain
("Life is hard son. It's harder if you're stupid.")
To: Stew Padasso
The drug company that is the first to see their pills below the price of Viagra will end up controlling the market. I have heard the the 'V' pills cost about $ 7 apiece. Somebody ought to sell the new pills for $ 3.50 and make a killing.
Even at $ 3 these pills are too expensive.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:21:58 AM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(My tag line is broken !)
To: psjones
You said "competition". Huhhuhhuh.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:22:24 AM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: Stew Padasso
What an appropriate headline!
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:23:21 AM PDT
by
capt. norm
(The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.)
To: Stew Padasso
Good post...Keep it Up
To: Stew Padasso
Viagra faces stiff competitionReporters do that on purpose.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:24:28 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I'm pretending I'm pulling in a TROUT! Am I doing it correctly?)
To: nevergore
I once tried to swallow a Viagra pill...It got stuck in my throat....had a stiff neck for a week.....I had a lawyer friend take Viagra once.
He got taller.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:25:23 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I'm pretending I'm pulling in a TROUT! Am I doing it correctly?)
To: Lazamataz
I figure that penis spam will increase 30%, at least.
Someone's getting a hard-on over that, for sure.
To: Stew Padasso
Now that's a headline! lol
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:29:03 AM PDT
by
kimmie7
(I need more time, more coffee, and more bandwidth.)
To: ex-Texan
Even at $ 3 these pills are too expensiveAnd you have done the research to prove that your opinion is superior to the free market?
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:29:39 AM PDT
by
catpuppy
To: Stew Padasso
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall of the conference room of Namelab or whatever company came up with the name of this miraculous concoction when the brainstorming session commenced:
Moderator: All right team. We've got a come up with a clever descriptive name that suggests a 'hard on' without really saying 'hard on'. What does the pill do? What does it do to your little elvis? Yes, Mary?
Mary: I don't have a little elvis!
Bruce:(lisping): Oh, what a surprise!
Moderator: Well Mary, think about it being a vibrator with run down batteries, after 11 at night when all 7-11 stores have closed!
Patel: 7-11 stores are now open 24 hours! I know, my uncle runs one!
Moderator: All right then, a plug-in vibrator during a blackout, OK? What does this pill do to a customer's little elvis?
Mary: Makes it big and scary?
Bruce (lisping) Makes it huge and delicious?
Patel: Makes it levitate?
Moderator: Levitate? Uhm, you're onto something Patel...
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:32:53 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Go ahead, make my day and re-state the obvious! Again!)
To: catpuppy
And you have done the research to prove that your opinion is superior to the free market?It's not a truly "free" market. Pfizer has a patent on the medication, as they should, and thusly has a monopoly.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:33:34 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I'm pretending I'm pulling in a TROUT! Am I doing it correctly?)
To: Stew Padasso
Levitra! Isn't that a wand-lifting spell used by Harry Potter ?
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:34:26 AM PDT
by
talleyman
(Take Viagra at the baseball game - see a double-header!)
To: Revolting cat!
Moderator: All right team. We've got a come up with a clever descriptive name that suggests a 'hard on' without really saying 'hard on'. What does the pill do?Laz: Erectovex?
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:34:39 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I'm pretending I'm pulling in a TROUT! Am I doing it correctly?)
To: ex-Texan
Come on. You can live your entire life without an erection. If you want one, $3 is cheap.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:35:13 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: nevergore
I believe Viagra is supposed to be taken as a suppository. At least that's what I think my wife told me.
When Viagra was first introduced, I took home a free sample, showed it to my wife and asked; "do you know what I can do with this?".
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