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		<title>Something Old, Something New&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mens-health.tv/news/?p=68</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>New Sex Drugs</category>
	<category>Hold on</category>
	<category>Priligy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Dapoxetine is a medication developed by a chemist at ELI LIlly who was working on anti-depressants.  The problem with it was that it got eliminated from the body so quickly that it was of no use as an anti-depressant.  But that made it useful in another direction because Priligy works on levers in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Dapoxetine is a medication developed by a chemist at ELI LIlly who was working on anti-depressants.  The problem with it was that it got eliminated from the body so quickly that it was of no use as an anti-depressant.  But that made it useful in another direction because Priligy works on levers in the brain that link right down to your dick and what it is doing.  In particular, it affects that magic moment when the trigger gets pulled and there&#8217;s no going back.  The orgasm.  Yes&#8230; <em>le bon moment</em> we all crave.</p>
	<p>The problem it seems is that some of us (who shall be nameless as ever) crave it a bit too much. So no sooner can they say &#8216;Here I go again&#8230;&#8217; than they discover to their chagrin that they&#8217;ve already gone.   Anyway, these poor buggers and their desperate, frustrated partners now have a ray of sunshine.  Dapoxetine Hydrochoride marketed by various units of Johnson and Johnson as Priligy is the first treatment approved for PE or Premature Ejaculation. It is also available in a generic version (Dapoxetine) at a fraction of the price from these <a href="http://mens-health.tv/priligy.html">Priligy (Dapoxetine) Pharmacies</a></p>
	<p>They will pretty much supply the medication to sufferers of PE anywhere on the planet, but we would be remiss if we did not point out that Priligy has not been approved in all countries yet.  It&#8217;s approved throughout most of Europe including the UK, but not yet in the US.</p>
	<p>OK&#8230; so does it work? the answer to that appears to be an emphatic yes. Trials on thousands of men of all ages showed an average improvement of 400 - 600% on time to lift off.  The respondents also reported that they felt more in control.  So if you&#8217;ve got a guy who goes in less than a minute. This stuff can take him to five or more.</p>
	<p>For men suffering from PE and ED i.e. they have difficulty getting an erection and when they do get one they ejaculate early, there are also amazing new polypills that put either Viagra/Priligy or Cialis/Priligy in one pill.  We have laid out the best pharmacies offering these Super Viagra and Super Cialis products on our <a href="http://mens-health.tv/priligy.html">buy Priligy</a>  page.
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		<title>Welcome back&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mens-health.tv/news/?p=67</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Mens Health</category>
	<category>ED Biz</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Check out our new coat of paint!  
	Yes, TFUK got an upgrade.  Not much of one I&#8217;ll agree.  But the site is much tidier.  Content is better arranged and it&#8217;s cleaner looking.  When TFUK  first staked out its tent pegs in 2005, a lot of men had no idea [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Check out our new coat of paint!  </p>
	<p>Yes, TFUK got an upgrade.  Not much of one I&#8217;ll agree.  But the site is much tidier.  Content is better arranged and it&#8217;s cleaner looking.  When TFUK  first staked out its tent pegs in 2005, a lot of men had no idea what Viagra was let alone Cialis and Levitra.  Since then, we&#8217;ve all moved on, so descriptions of what these medications are and what they do can be brief, although detailed information is still available elsewhere on these pages - buried here in the blog for example.  Here on these shelves, creaking under the dust, are our voluminous archives of press cuttings garnered from the Web over the years and commented on my yours truly (with all due respect to the original authors).  In fact, if you went looking for the original stories you couldn&#8217;t find them anymore. Those scummy guys have no idea of public responsibility like the boy scouts here at TFUK.  We feel a public duty to catalogue all these weird stories about Viagra and sexual shenanigans!! If not us , then WHO?</p>
	<p>Anyway, to get back to our new coat of paint, I retained the banner of the couple cuddling up on the beach and looking at a faded horizon beyond the waves.  Ahhh&#8230; I&#8217;m just an old romantic really.  (Plus I did it myself and it took me ages to get it right, damn it.  Anyway, I like it! </p>
	<p>I think the site is now clean looking and functional. Most of the pharmacies listed are the same.  I have made one or two additions and deleted some others.  But rest assured there are the same prinicipals behind these outfits who you (and I) can deal with in confidence.  Two of our listed pharmacies go back 6 years! Just think about that when you consider buying from some fly-by-night outfit.  Our top pharmacies really are the best.
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		<title>Free Viagra for Credit Crunch Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Viagra</category>
	<category>Funny but...</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Well&#8230; not exactly free but discounted anyway.
	This is new from Pfizer the creators of Viagra.  They have announced a program - unfortunately only for US Viagra users - that will allow guys who&#8217;ve lost their jobs and health insurance to continue to use the stuff.  The rules are that they have to have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Well&#8230; not exactly free but discounted anyway.</p>
	<p>This is new from Pfizer the creators of Viagra.  They have announced a program - unfortunately only for US Viagra users - that will allow guys who&#8217;ve lost their jobs and health insurance to continue to use the stuff.  The rules are that they have to have a pink slip (not the gay type of pink slip but the other one) and they have to have been taking Viagra for 3 months at least.</p>
	<p>Isn&#8217;t that nice of Pfizer!  Things may be bad - but they&#8217;re not  suicidal.  At least not yet.  Lost the job&#8230; but at least I can still get laid!</p>
	<p>UK Viagra users cannot take advantage of the program however.  But that hardly matters since you can buy viagra right here at totally-free at the cheapest price on the net.  But we thought you&#8217;d like to know anyway&#8230;
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		<title>What Causes Erectile Dysfunction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Impotence</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One leading cause of erectile dysfunction is diabetes. Between 35 to 50 percent of men with diabetes suffer with erectile dysfunction because diabetes can damage nerves and blood vessels. Also, men who suffer from an enlarged prostate tend to have higher rates of erectile dysfunction. Other causes include high blood pressure, alcoholism, smoking, obesity and certain medications.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>February is all about hearts, roses and romance, but if you or your partner has erectile dysfunction, this time of year could be an unpleasant reminder of what was. Erectile dysfunction can shatter lives and damage relationships. </p>
	<p>The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases estimates that erectile dysfunction affects 15 million to 30 million men. The incidence of erectile dysfunction increases with age but it is not a problem of age. It is usually a problem of disease.</p>
	<p>One leading cause of erectile dysfunction is diabetes. Between 35 to 50 percent of men with diabetes suffer with erectile dysfunction because diabetes can damage nerves and blood vessels. Also, men who suffer from an enlarged prostate tend to have higher rates of erectile dysfunction. Other causes include high blood pressure, alcoholism, smoking, obesity and certain medications.</p>
	<p>Medical research is finding that erectile dysfunction isn&#8217;t just a sexual concern. Several studies have linked erectile dysfunction to coronary artery disease. In one study nearly 70 percent of the men who experienced erectile dysfunction later experienced angina or chest pain from heart disease. For them, erectile dysfunction was an early warning sign of their coronary artery disease.</p>
	<p>This makes sense if you consider that the build up of artery plaque or atherosclerosis that can block up the arteries of the heart can also affect other arteries throughout the body. The arteries of the penis are smaller than the arteries in the heart so they could become blocked faster.</p>
	<p>Television commercials market erectile dysfunction medications like Cialis, Levitra and Viagra around the clock. These medications are FDA approved and very effective in treating erectile dysfunction. The major drawback with these drugs is the way they interact with nitroglycerin. Taking nitroglycerin during the active period of one of these erectile dysfunction medicines could cause a life threatening drop in blood pressure.</p>
	<p>Other very effective treatments are simple lifestyle changes.</p>
	<p>* Stop smoking. Cigarette smoking restricts blood flow.</p>
	<p>* Lose weight. Obesity can decrease testosterone levels.</p>
	<p>* Control cholesterol levels. Increased cholesterol in the blood can lead to increased plaques in the arteries to the penis thus restricting blood flow.</p>
	<p>There are other heavily advertised non-FDA approved herbal type medications for erectile dysfunction. Any use of these types of drugs should definitely be discussed with your doctor since erectile dysfunction can be a warning sign of heart disease as well as an indicator of other health problems.</p>
	<p>Never before has erectile dysfunction been so treatable. Treatment begins with a private conversation with your doctor. He will begin by reviewing your personal health history and checking some blood work. There are many causes of erectile dysfunction and identifying them is important.</p>
	<p>Men today should realize that they aren&#8217;t alone with erectile dysfunction anymore. There are effective treatments. With your doctor&#8217;s help February can once more become all about hearts roses, romance and maybe a little blue pill or two.
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		<title>Something had to work!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Viagra</category>
	<category>Funny but...</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes... in an operation codenamed 'spookdick', the CIA have now started to use Viagra to bribe the Taliban sympathisers because it's so much more effective than money, guns or drugs which they tried previously. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Imagine you are a sixties something Islamic warlord living in a cave in Afghanistan. </p>
	<p>Got that!</p>
	<p>OK&#8230; first thing is&#8230; you&#8217;re frustrated. </p>
	<p>Who wouldn&#8217;t be? the more you aim bombs at the coalition, the harder the bastards hit you back! </p>
	<p>Worse yet,  the younger and cuter your wives get, the limper your dick feels whenever you need to coral them against the cave wall and &#8217;show them who&#8217;s got the juice!&#8217;  Truth is&#8230; lately they&#8217;ve started laughing about it behind your back.  What&#8217;s a warlord supposed to do? I mean&#8230; if a warlord can&#8217;t get respect from his wives what is the world coming to!!</p>
	<p>Trust the indefatigable CIA to come up with an answer. Yes, the spooks with the mostest were sure to find this achilles heel (so to speak) and shoot it up with  their sharp arrows. </p>
	<p>In an operation codenamed &#8217;spookdick&#8217;, the CIA have now started to use Viagra to bribe Taliban sympathisers because it&#8217;s so much more effective than money, guns or drugs all of  which which they tried previously. What I wonder is&#8230; Why did it take them so long to figure this one? The Taliban already have money and guns! But what they don&#8217;t have is nice hard dicks to make their multiple wives happy.  </p>
	<p>So the miracle pill viagra comes to the rescue -  MAKE LOVE NOT WAR - not only does viagra stop couples feuding by getting them to concentrate on fucking instead, it is now  literally stopping a war by making the warlords cooperative Taliban informants.  Justifying this controversial new position one warlord, scratching his crotch, was overheard remarking&#8230; &#8217;so what have the Taliban done for me lately&#8230;&#8217; </p>
	<p>We also happily note that viagra does not come under the provisions of the overseas bribery act. In fact,  the CIA has informed Totally Free that it is filling this on its tax returns as &#8216;charitable contributions&#8217;.
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		<title>Free Viagra.  At last it&#8217;s for real.</title>
		<link>http://mens-health.tv/news/?p=63</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico City to hand out free impotence pills to men 70 and older]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Mexico City is giving out free Viagra and other impotence drugs to men 70 and older.</p>
	<p>Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says the city is implementing the plan because sexuality &#8220;has a lot to do with quality of life and our happiness.&#8221;</p>
	<p>City Health Secretary Armando Ahued said Thursday that the government will start handing out doses of one or two Viagra, Levitra or Cialis pills on Dec. 1.</p>
	<p>They will be distributed at three centers that specialize in sexual health for the elderly. The men will receive medical examinations before receiving the pills.</p>
	<p>Ahued says an estimated 112,000 men 70 or older live in the Federal District, which has a population of 8.7 million.</p>
	<p>Some 20 million people live in the greater Mexico City area.
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		<title>It&#8217;s all in the name&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mens-health.tv/news/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Viagra</category>
	<category>Funny but...</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bogota (NJ) police have arrested a worker in a mini-mart for illegally selling Viagra and a generic version of Cialis from 'under the counter' .  This cad was also selling marijuana smoking paraphernalia. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>No I don&#8217;t mean the name Cialis, Viagra or Levitra. I mean the name of the town - in this case Bogota.  </p>
	<p>Now there&#8217;s a name to conjure with.  </p>
	<p>To explain to those of you who may have just dropped in from another planet, Bogota is in Columbia and it is to drugs what MIT is to technology, or Wall Street is to stocks.   But this story doesn&#8217;t concern that Bogota, apparently there is another far less famous Bogota in New Jersey of all places. </p>
	<p>Anyway,  Bogota (NJ) police have arrested a worker in a mini-mart for illegally selling Viagra and a generic version of Cialis from &#8216;under the counter&#8217; .  This cad was also selling marijuana smoking paraphernalia.  His name is Ahmet Kaya.  He&#8217;s aged 30 and at the time of writing is being held in jail on $20,000 bail.  Apparently, the guy can&#8217;t be bailed due to an immigration issue so he&#8217;s obviously one who likes to push his luck.  The store&#8217;s owner cannot be reached because he is on vacation in Turkey and I understand that he may very well stay there until this silly misunderstanding gets cleared up.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Viva Viagra&#8217; Coming to a Bedroom near you</title>
		<link>http://mens-health.tv/news/?p=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Viagra</category>
	<category>Funny but...</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well - maybe they are gay! Or maybe the Pfizer execs decided to target the gay viagra market. Or maybe its creators realised how unrealistic it would be to have men hollering the virtues of viagra in front of women.  Even someone with half a brain knows that you NEVER mention this stuff to women.  None of us takes this shit, not one of us!  We can all do it better at fifty than we could at twenty because of vitamins, or good genes, or fucking magic, or somesuch. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Some funny stuff below from some newspaper or another&#8230; </p>
	<p>Point is - here&#8217;s a Viagra commercial where a bunch of guys (studio executives it seems) are bouncing around singing &#8216;Viva Viagra&#8217;.  </p>
	<p>Question the writers pose is why? </p>
	<p>They wonder why there are no women in the commercial.  </p>
	<p>Not much imagination these guys.  Maybe they are gay! Maybe the Pfizer execs have decided to target the gay viagra market. </p>
	<p>It&#8217;s a possibility - you have to admit.  Although not very likely to my mind. </p>
	<p>In my opinion, the commercial&#8217;s creators surely realised how unrealistic it would be to have men hollering the virtues of viagra in front of women.  Even someone with half a brain knows that you NEVER mention this stuff to women.   None of us (I repeat not a single one of us) takes this shit!  We can all do the sex thing better at fifty than we could at twenty because of vitamins, good genes, or just fucking magic. </p>
	<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the read&#8230;</p>
	<p>When did Viagra commercials start to look like beer commercials? A new Viagra TV commercial dramatically begins with the on-screen graphic &#8220;Nashville 1:22 AM&#8221; and then it shows a gaggle of old, graying studio musicians who are ostensibly singing about their ever-loving wives at home but are obviously lusting after the luscious young Music Row babes that their own failing erectile equipment deny them access to. So they&#8217;re heartily saluting the little blue pill that makes a vestige of eternal youth possible, one that allows old guys to make at least a few more last stands.</p>
	<p>These old studio guys have made some money, so they all have cherry &#8216;65 Mustang convertibles or vintage Harleys or even a vintage Porsche or two. What they don&#8217;t have is what they most want. And that is something that is wasted on young men. It&#8217;s what Viagra is thumping with commercials like this one. What the targets of this commercial really need &#8212; and I am offering this suggestion to Viagra free of charge &#8212; is a little lead in their pencils. Pencil companies, please get in line. Oysters in the diet, perhaps?</p>
	<p>I&#8217;m not the only person to wonder why this Nashville-themed commercial, as part of a current series of Viagra ads, has no women in it. This commercial depicts a bunch of supposed Nashville studio pickers getting together to sing &#8220;Viva Viagra&#8221; at 1:22 in the morning and to trade meaningful glances with each other. What&#8217;s going on here? Is this actually some kind of weird private club down on Demonbreun? Where they do strange Viagra things behind closed doors? You can just imagine the brainstorming session that led to this gem: &#8220;Good times! Good fun! The guys will all get together and pop some Viagra and see what pops up!&#8221; You kind of expect the old guys to break into &#8220;Strangers in the Night.&#8221; Or &#8220;Hard Times.&#8221;
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		<title>Happy Birthday Viagra!</title>
		<link>http://mens-health.tv/news/?p=60</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Yes - it&#8217;s time to sing Happy Birthday to the little blue pill that has made such a difference to so many lives. Viagra turns ten years old today. Soon it will be old enough to smoke and have sex!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Yes - it&#8217;s time to sing Happy Birthday to the little blue pill that has made such a difference to so many lives. Viagra turns ten years old today. Soon it will be old enough to smoke and have sex!</p>
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		<title>Viagra improves heart function, finds study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satyrical Mick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA['We have a number of drugs and therapies available to treat the left ventricle of the heart to prevent it from failing or to treat it after it has failed, but we don't have anything for the right ventricle. The phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors, which include Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, may offer some important benefits in this case,' he said.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Viagra doesn&#8217;t only help in boosting a man&#8217;s performance in the bedroom, but as researchers have also found, it can also help improve heart function.</p>
	<p>This finding means that the popular drug prescribed for erectile dysfunction can potentially save the lives of people with specific heart problems.</p>
	<p>The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta who are now encouraging doctors to consider prescribing the drug when a patient has a failing right ventricle of the heart, a dire condition for which there are currently no treatments available.</p>
	<p>Dr. Jayan Nagendran, a cardiac surgery resident at the U of A and the first author of the paper, said that the finding was important as Viagra can be clinically and immediately relevant to help these patients.</p>
	<p>&#8216;There are a number of medical conditions in both children and adults for which there is a need to boost the performance of the right ventricle, and this drug can be clinically and immediately relevant to help these patients,&#8217; he said.</p>
	<p>&#8216;Sometimes the right ventricle can fail rapidly and even result in death, like in lung transplant surgery, for example. In such a case, Viagra may increase the right ventricle&#8217;s performance and save the patient,&#8217; Dr Nagendran added.</p>
	<p>Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a U of A cardiologist, the Canada Research Chair in Pulmonary Hypertension and the senior author of the paper, said that another reason boffins were thrilled with the results of the study was because whiel there are a number of drugs and therapies available to treat the left ventricle of the heart from failing or afterwards, there are no current treatments for the right ventricle.</p>
	<p>&#8216;We have a number of drugs and therapies available to treat the left ventricle of the heart to prevent it from failing or to treat it after it has failed, but we don&#8217;t have anything for the right ventricle. The phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors, which include Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, may offer some important benefits in this case,&#8217; he said.</p>
	<p>In a healthy person, phosphodiesterase type 5 constricts arteries in two places in the body-the lungs and the penis. In the lungs, it prevents excessively low blood pressure. In the penis, it prevents excessive engorgement.</p>
	<p>However, undue phosphodiesterase type 5 can constrict these arteries too much and cause problems, as it does in the case of pulmonary hypertension, where lung arteries constrict and put a strain on the right ventricle of the heart.</p>
	<p>Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors allow the arteries to relax so that blood can flow more easily.</p>
	<p>The researchers studied human hearts and showed that phosphodiesterase type 5 is expressed in large amounts in thickened (hypertrophied) right ventricles, but not in healthy hearts. They replicated their results in animal models and also showed that Viagra enhanced the output of hypertrophied right ventricles.</p>
	<p>Michelakis noted that this might be the first example of a drug that can improve the function of the right ventricle (which is diseased in pulmonary hypertension), without affecting the left ventricle (which is normal in pulmonary hypertension).</p>
	<p>&#8216;This selectivity is important and has direct clinical implications. Relaxing the lung arteries alone may not be sufficient to help the patient, if the right ventricle is too weak to push blood through them. A drug such as Viagra, with a combined beneficial effect both in the lung arteries and the right ventricle of the heart, offers a significant advantage,&#8217; Michelakis said.</p>
	<p>&#8216;Viagra is a drug that millions of people take every year, and we&#8217;ve just learned something new and essential about how it works,&#8217; Nagendran said.</p>
	<p>&#8216;This drug can have an immediate and direct clinical application, so we&#8217;re pretty excited about these findings,&#8217; Michelakis added.</p>
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