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Active Ingredient in Viagra Shrunk Disfiguring Growths in Kids

Posted 25 Jan 2012 by Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25 – A new preliminary report suggests that the active ingredient in Viagra, sildenafil, could reduce the size of large growths that can disfigure the bodies of children. The findings could point to yet another use for the medicine, which was first developed as a heart medication until researchers noticed that it helped impotent men have erections. This time, researchers stumbled upon an alternate use while using a Viagra-like drug to treat a rare condition that causes high blood pressure in the arteries that lead to the lungs. There are caveats: The treatment is very expensive, the research is only in its early stages, and the medication may not be a cure. Still, the research raises the prospect that "we could treat some of these little kids who have little or no hope," said report co-author Dr. Alfred Lane, a professor of dermatology and pediatrics at Stanford ... Read more

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Viagra May Help Children With Rare Blood Pressure Disorder

Posted 25 Oct 2011 by Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Oct. 25 – New research suggests that the active ingredient in the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, which was initially developed as a treatment for heart disease, could help children with a rare condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension. The drug, which is expensive to take regularly and has side effects, is already approved to treat the condition in adults. And some pediatricians use it to treat children, said Dr. Thomas Kulik, senior associate in cardiology at Children's Hospital Boston. But it has not yet received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for that purpose. Pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare condition, causes abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries that lead to the lungs. It can be inherited, accompany some forms of heart disease or occur for no known reason, Kulik said. The disease can limit the ability to exercise and lead to heart ... Read more

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Accidental Medication Poisonings in Kids on the Rise

Posted 16 Sep 2011 by Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Sept. 16 – Despite ongoing prevention efforts, a growing number of young children are being accidentally poisoned with medications, according to new research. The study, which was based on data reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers between 2001 and 2008, found that medication poisoning among children aged 5 and under increased by 22 percent, although the number of children in the United States in this age group rose by only 8 percent during the study period. "The problem of pediatric poisoning in the U.S. is getting worse, not better," Dr. Randall Bond, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said in a hospital news release. In conducting the study, which is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers reviewed information on over 544,000 children who landed in the emergency department due to medication poisoning ... Read more

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New Uses Found for Old Drugs

Posted 17 Aug 2011 by Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17 – Many drugs already approved to combat certain illnesses may also be helpful in treating a slew of other seemingly unrelated health problems, a new study indicates. Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine used computers to pair drugs with all illnesses for which they might be beneficial. They argued their findings make the case for drug repositioning – or the use of existing drugs to boost progress on the development of new treatments – for other serious conditions. One high-profile example of how a drug can be used to treat conditions for which it was not originally intended involves Viagra. This medication was first developed to treat heart problems. It turned out that Viagra is also effective in treating erectile dysfunction as well as a lung disorder called pulmonary hypertension. The researchers from Stanford, however, sought to predict ... Read more

Viagra Linked to Hearing Loss

Posted 19 May 2010 by Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 19 – The erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, and possibly other similar medications, may prompt long-term hearing loss among users, a new study suggests. In the May 18 issue of the Archives of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham discuss evidence supporting an association between the onset of hearing problems and Viagra. The medication is one of the so-called class of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE-5i), which also includes Cialis and Levitra. The finding follows the 2007 decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to adjust labeling for such medications to more prominently display warnings about hearing loss risks. The move stemmed from reports that year regarding sudden hearing loss among users of these drugs. "It appears from these findings that the current government warning regarding hearing ... Read more

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Viagra May Aid Those With Lung Fibrosis

Posted 18 May 2010 by Drugs.com

TUESDAY, May 18 – People with a serious lung disease that causes progressive scarring of the lung tissue might get some relief from sildenafil, the drug used in Viagra, a new study finds. The disease, called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, causes the lungs to become increasingly thick and stiff, reducing the ability to breathe. There's no known cause, and there's little in the way of treatment, researchers say. Most people with the disease live just three to five years after diagnosis. "There are about 150,000 patients in the United States and about 5 million worldwide with the disease," said lead researcher, Dr. David A. Zisman, from the Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara, Calif. He cited Jerry Lewis, Evel Knievel and Robert Goulet as celebrities who had the disease, which he said has "no proven therapy, except lung transplantation, and survival is quite limited." His research team decided ... Read more

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Impotence Drugs May Aid Brain Tumor Treatment

Posted 12 May 2010 by Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 12 – A drug already approved for the treatment of erectile dysfunction may actually help boost the effectiveness of treatments for brain tumors tied to both lung and breast cancer, research shows. The finding stems from an animal study that indicated that leading erectile dysfunction medications sildenafil (Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra) can enable the chemotherapy drug Herceptin to more easily penetrate the so-called blood-brain barrier that must be breached in order to successfully target cancer that has spread to the brain. Although the blood-brain barrier is a naturally occurring mechanism designed to protect the brain from exposure to dangerous substances, in the case of cancer treatment it can significantly impede drug delivery, particularly of large-molecule drugs, such as Herceptin. However, erectile dysfunction drugs appear to increase the barrier's ... Read more

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Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks

Posted 29 Jan 2010 by Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Jan. 29 – People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends. At best the drugs won't help you and at worst they could kill you, the review article said. "You may be wasting your money or you may actually be hurting yourself," said Dr. Margaret E. Wierman, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and chief of endocrinology at the Denver VA Medical Center, who was not involved with the study. Counterfeit Internet drugs are a mushrooming problem. Seizures of fake drugs in Europe quadrupled between 2005 and 2007. And the number of investigations undertaken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration increased by a factor of eight between 2000 and 2006, according to the study, published in the International Journal of Clinical ... Read more

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FDA Approves Intravenous Formulation Of Pfizer's Revatio (Sildenafil) For The Treatment Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Posted 2 Dec 2009 by Drugs.com

Revatio is the Only Treatment in Its Class with Both Oral and Intravenous Formulations NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 20, 2009 - Pfizer announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Revatio (sildenafil) Injection, an intravenous formulation of Revatio. Revatio is the only FDA-approved phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor available in both tablet and intravenous formulations. Revatio is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group I) to improve exercise ability and delay clinical worsening. The delay in clinical worsening was demonstrated when Revatio was added to background epoprostenol therapy. The efficacy of Revatio has not been adequately evaluated in patients taking bosentan concurrently. Revatio Injection is for the continued treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension who are currently ... Read more

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Viagra Helpful for Children With Heart Defect

Posted 1 Dec 2009 by Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 17 – The erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, boosts the heart's pumping ability in children and young adults who've had the Fontan operation to correct single-ventricle heart defects, researchers report. In the Fontan operation, doctors direct venous blood directly to the pulmonary arteries, bypassing the heart. The procedure is the third surgery in staged reconstruction for children with single-ventricle defects, explained the researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in a news release from the American Heart Association. The study included 27 children and young adults who'd undergone the Fontan operation an average of 11 years earlier. The patients, average age 15, were given either a placebo or 20 milligrams of sildenafil three times daily for six weeks. That was followed by six weeks of no drug or placebo, and then the ... Read more