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The Department of Defense (DoD) spent more than a half a million dollars on the male enhancement drug Viagra last year, according to government contracts. The Pentagon issued 60 contracts worth $504,816 for the drug in 2014. All 60 contracts were awarded to Cardinal Health Inc., a pharmaceutical distribution company based in Dublin, Ohio. Last year DoD also ordered $3,505 worth of Levitra, and $14,540 of Cialis, other popular erectile dysfunction drugs. The contracts were filed under “Troop Support.”

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators have told the makers of the popular drugs Levitra and Zyrtec to pull some advertisements the regulators said made unsubstantiated claims. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it sent letters this week notifying Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. and Pfizer Inc. that a television commercial for Levitra and three direct-mail advertisements for Zyrtec made unsubstantiated claims of superiority over competing products. In Levitra's case, Bayer also failed to disclose FDA warnings and product information, the letter said. It was the fourth such warning for Pfizer about Zyrtec. The commercial for Levitra, an erectile dysfunction drug, features...

Here they go again .. these very sexually implicit and direct ads for Levitra or Cialis .. in the middle of a Sunday afternoon football game.

Viagra, which treats a common but decidedly nonfatal male malady, might soon have a new role treating a rare but life-threatening disease that strikes mainly women. Doctors said yesterday that sildenafil citrate, the ingredient in Pfizer's impotence pill, had proven effective in a clinical trial as a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension - extremely high pressure in the artery carrying blood to the lungs. "It is a very promising new therapy for the treatment of a very severe disease," said H. Ardeschir Ghofrani, an assistant professor at the University of Giessen in Germany, who presented the results at the annual...

Names of impotence drugs seem to be popping up everywhere these days. E-mail come-ons for Cialis crowd our inboxes. Lengthy ads for Levitra bombard our TV screens. And who can forget former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole’s star turn as a Viagra pitchman? Or NASCAR driver Mark Martin’s Viagra-mobile? Americans may soon see these impotence drugs’ names in yet another place: On a list of drugs covered by Medicare. Medicare’s drug standards agency, U.S. Pharmacopeia, recently included “impotence agents” in its draft list of drugs to be paid for by Medicare starting in 2006. Here’s hoping they strike the libido-lifting...

In his column last week, Robert Novak talked to a big bunch of Beltway insiders about Donald Rumsfeld's future, or his lack thereof. Among my colleague's sources was ''one senior official of a coalition partner,'' who, apropos the Defense secretary, put it this way: ''There must be a neck cut, and there is only one neck of choice.'' Lovely line. Unknown to the big shot diplomat, 'round about that exact moment halfway across the world, Nick Berg's captors were cutting his head off -- or, to be more precise, feverishly hacking it off while raving ''God is great!'' So Bob...

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A frantic behind-the-scenes drama is unfolding around Sen. John Kerry and his quest to lockup the Democratic nomination for president, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal. Intrigue surrounds a woman who recently fled the country, reportedly at the prodding of Kerry, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. A serious investigation of the woman and the nature of her relationship with Sen. John Kerry has been underway at TIME magazine, ABC NEWS, the WASHINGTON POST and the ASSOCIATED PRESS, where the woman in question once worked. MORE A close friend of the woman first approached a reporter late last year claiming fantastic stories...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- When you boil it all down, the Budweiser Shootout is nothing but a glorified practice among 19 drivers to see who has the best Daytona 500 backup car. So why is it always so intense? Why do 22 drivers -- pole winner from 2003 and previous Shootout winners -- go after it so hard? Well, it's simple. It's a race. There's money on the line. Did we mention it was a race? "It's like a bar fight, but the car takes the beating," defending Budweiser Shootout winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. said.

FDA approves second drug to treat erectile dysfunction08:56 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 20, 2003Associated Press WASHINGTON - The government has approved the sale of a second pill to treat erectile dysfunction, setting the stage for a fierce battle with Viagra in the billion-dollar-plus impotence market. The new drug, Levitra, is in the same family as Viagra. Both work by targeting an enzyme important for maintaining an erection. The Food and Drug Administration approved Levitra Tuesday. Until now, the blue, diamond-shaped Viagra pills have been the only oral prescription drug available for an estimated 30 million American men who...