Viagra when was it discovered

So would the company continue to fund our project? The program had already attracted some unexpected publicity and I worried what impact this might have on the decision. Fortunately, large numbers of impotence sufferers had written to us explaining how the condition was having devastating effects on their relationships and how desperate they were for effective treatment.

These letters further convinced us there was a serious need for an ED treatment and encouraged us to keep pushing the program internally. We received the extra funding and as the clinical program continued we found the results were better and better. The drug worked well in men with a variety of causes of ED, including diabetes and spinal cord injury.

It also continued to be well tolerated. We applied for a licence from the regulatory authorities in The rest, as they say, is history. Viagra is being prescribed to some 30 million men all over the world. It is this fact that makes the long days and frustration, which are part and parcel of the development of pharmaceuticals, bearable.

I remind myself that I was just one member of a large team — experts in about disciplines played a part in making Viagra available to patients.

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