The Nr Fairy
23rd Jun 2001, 15:46
From yesterday's Times :
'Fast worker' boast of Viagra rival
A RIVAL to Viagra, said to work three times faster, will bring back the sponteneity of love-making to impotent men, its makers claimed at its launch yesterday.
Uprima is said to become effective in less than 20 minutes and its impact is unaffected by a romantic three-course meal. The tiny red tablet is dissolved under the tongue and taken by the bloodstream to the brain, where it stimulates the central nervous system.
Viagra is swallowed and causes muscles in the penis to swell with blood. One of the biggest complaints from users is that it can take two hours to act after a big meal. As with Viagra, Uprima is likely to work for about half of all men suffering from dysfunction.
At the launch of Uprima in London yesterday Professor Jeremy Heaton, of Queen’s University, Ontario, said: “Uprima offers several benefits for patients — it works fast and it works similarly to the way men normally have erections. It works on the central nervous system and enhances the natural signalling process by which dopamine acts through these pathways, tipping the balance in favour of an erection.” Uprima has run into controversy in the United States, where it has yet to be launched, after being linked to fainting and low blood pressure. Uprima’s manufacturers said that fainting affected four out of 5,000 patients in the American trial and would occur in fewer than 1 per cent of users.
Abbott Laboratories Ltd, an American firm that employs 3,000 people in the UK, said that the drug was expected to cost about £30 for four tablets. It is likely to be resubmitted to the US Food and Drug Administration this year.
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My question - where do they measure the blood pressure to know that Uprima lowers it ? I thought that ran counter to the whole principle of the drug . . .
'Fast worker' boast of Viagra rival
A RIVAL to Viagra, said to work three times faster, will bring back the sponteneity of love-making to impotent men, its makers claimed at its launch yesterday.
Uprima is said to become effective in less than 20 minutes and its impact is unaffected by a romantic three-course meal. The tiny red tablet is dissolved under the tongue and taken by the bloodstream to the brain, where it stimulates the central nervous system.
Viagra is swallowed and causes muscles in the penis to swell with blood. One of the biggest complaints from users is that it can take two hours to act after a big meal. As with Viagra, Uprima is likely to work for about half of all men suffering from dysfunction.
At the launch of Uprima in London yesterday Professor Jeremy Heaton, of Queen’s University, Ontario, said: “Uprima offers several benefits for patients — it works fast and it works similarly to the way men normally have erections. It works on the central nervous system and enhances the natural signalling process by which dopamine acts through these pathways, tipping the balance in favour of an erection.” Uprima has run into controversy in the United States, where it has yet to be launched, after being linked to fainting and low blood pressure. Uprima’s manufacturers said that fainting affected four out of 5,000 patients in the American trial and would occur in fewer than 1 per cent of users.
Abbott Laboratories Ltd, an American firm that employs 3,000 people in the UK, said that the drug was expected to cost about £30 for four tablets. It is likely to be resubmitted to the US Food and Drug Administration this year.
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My question - where do they measure the blood pressure to know that Uprima lowers it ? I thought that ran counter to the whole principle of the drug . . .