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Viagra

Sildenafil, sold as the brand name Viagra among others, is a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension

February 2024

  • Rows of blue Viagra tablets

    Viagra may help to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, study finds

  • Image of woman's face with graphical diamond shapes.

    Sexual healing
    My girlfriend caught me taking Viagra – and now she’s suspicious of me

January 2024

  • Natural vitamin supplements on a white flat surface

    TGA issues safety alerts after online herbal supplements found to contain Viagra

    Consumers advised to stop using seven supplements taken for sexual enhancement, including Tantra Jelly and Bullblood tablets

December 2023

  • Mid adult man comforts friend during therapy session.

    Brief letters
    CBT instead of Viagra? That won’t last for long

    Brief letters: Cognitive behavioural therapy | Cutting down on mental maths | A break from gambling ads | Wound up in Winchester
  • FILE - Britain's King Charles III waves during his visit to the Discovery Centre and Auld School Close to hear more about the 3.3million pound (4.1 million US dollars) energy efficient housing project in the area, in Tomintoul, Scotland, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, that King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month for a state visit full of symbolism: His mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, learned she had become queen while visiting a game preserve in the East African nation in 1952. (Jane Barlow/Pool Photo via AP, File)

    Brief letters
    The King Charles effect on school attendance

    Letters: Royal portraits | Viagra article | Losing sucks | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Hum improvement | Appalling apostrophes
  • Dr David Brown photographed in his lab at Chesterford Research Park near Cambridge

    ‘It wouldn’t exist’: Viagra inventor tells how Welsh miners began its rise

    Dr David Brown says erectile dysfunction drug, subject of a BBC drama, could have been scrapped if a miner hadn’t spoken out

December 2021

  • Viagra pills

    Viagra could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease, study finds

    US scientists say users of sildenafil – the generic name for Viagra – are 69% less likely to develop the form of dementia than non-users

April 2021

  • ‘He wouldn’t tell me when he was taking one, and would just spring the erection on me.’

    Sexual healing
    My boyfriend needs Viagra – the lack of spontaneity is killing my sex drive

    He couldn’t maintain an erection, so he got some medication. But the fact that sex has to be agreed in advance is a turn-off for me

November 2020

  • Lee paid tribute to his mother for helping him overcome his early dislike of musicals.

    Standing ovation: Spike Lee to direct musical about Viagra

    The director’s next project after Da 5 Bloods is based on a 2018 Esquire article and will be co-written by Kwame Kwei-Armah

March 2020

  • Blurred pedestrians pass the street sign on a Westminster pavement, where Parliament Street becomes Whitehall.

    Keeping your distance isn't so easy after all

    Letters: Mike Gill on the difficulty of staying 2 metres apart on narrow pavements, Ted Clark goes back 85 years to a quieter world, and Bob Moorman wonders about the sale of Viagra in his pharmacy

June 2019

  • More than 300 million men worldwide are expected to experience erectile dysfunction by 2025.

    The race to replace Viagra

    As the last patents on the erectile dysfunction drug run out, interest in finding new treatments has been renewed

March 2019

  • Three Viagra tablets

    Zambia bans energy drink found to contain Viagra

  • Illustration of a man with the male symbol round his head

    My life in sex
    My life in sex: ‘My fear of losing my erection meant I could no longer enjoy sex’

January 2019

  • Tim Martin, founder of the pub chain JD Wetherspoon, visits The Swan in Weymouth during a nationwide tour of his pubs to talk about a no-deal Brexit

    Brief letters
    Alex Glasgow and the post-pub revolution

    Brief letters: Price rise | In praise of the Guardian | Alex Glasgow | Ynys Môn | Viagra treatment for gout

July 2018

  • Ultrasound scan of a foetus.

    Queensland trial giving Viagra to pregnant women halted after Netherlands deaths

  • Newborn baby in hospital

    Eleven babies die after Dutch women given Viagra-like drug in trial

December 2017

  • In future, men will not need prescriptions to buy Viagra at high street pharmacies in Britain.

    The Observer profile
    Viagra: the little blue pill that revolutionised our sex lives

    The virility drug, soon to be available over the counter in the UK, is a phenomenal success story, despite being the butt of many jokes. In 25 years, it’s also changed how we talk about male impotence
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