New Cleveland Clinic-led research points to sildenafil (Viagra) as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The study provides evidence from computational models, insurance claims data and observations from brain cells ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Treatments to help babies who run out of oxygen during pregnancy or at birth (neonatal encephalopathy) are limited. Therapeutic hypothermia is the only option used to prevent brain damage in such cases, but 29% of babies ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Results from the National Institutes of Health's Drug Repurposing for Effective Alzheimer's Medicines (DREAM) study show that sildenafil (Viagra) and tadalafil (Cialis) may not be suitable candidates for treating dementia. ...
Oct 4, 2022
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You may be surprised to learn that the medication sildenafil—better known by its brand name Viagra—has other medical purposes aside from treating male erectile dysfunction. It can also be used to treat lung diseases that ...
Sep 29, 2022
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In a laboratory study in mice, sildenafil, a commonly used erectile dysfunction medication, was found to worsen abdominal aortic aneurysms, indicating additional research may be needed to determine if the medication may have ...
Jan 5, 2022
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A new Cleveland Clinic-led study has identified sildenafil—an FDA-approved therapy for erectile dysfunction (Viagra) and pulmonary hypertension (Ravatio)—as a promising drug candidate to help prevent and treat Alzheimer's ...
Dec 6, 2021
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Sildenafil is commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction and is generally regarded as safe with limited side effects. However, a recent study in Frontiers in Neurology has highlighted the risk of persistent visual side-effects, ...
Feb 7, 2020
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A recent study published in the journal Cephalalgia, the official journal of the International Headache Society, reported an intriguing discovery. The study, entitled "Investigation of distinct molecular pathways in migraine ...
Dec 16, 2019
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An estimated six to 15 million people in the U.S. are children born of a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia. New research performed in rats reveals that treating preeclampsia with sildenafil citrate (Viagra) may help protect ...
Apr 6, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Nintedanib plus sildenafil does not provide benefit over nintedanib alone for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and diffusion capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide (DLCO) of 35 percent or ...
Sep 28, 2018
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