Pfizer, the maker of the world-famous love drug, is now fighting back with technology. The company began on Dec. 15 to affix electronic identification devices known as RFID tags to all U.S. shipments of Viagra in an effort detect counterfeit pills, 5 million of which were seized by authorities last year. RFID stands for radio […]
We’re talking about the pills in your medicine cabinet.
Ever wonder how the little blue pill called Viagra got its name? Why generics often have tongue-twisting monikers? Jeanette Y. Wick, a senior clinical research pharmacist with the National Cancer Institute, explains the complexities of naming prescription drugs in an article in the January/February issue of […]
LONDON - U.S. drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc. is working on another version of the impotence sufferer’s drug of choice — an inhalable Viagra.
More rapid ‘onset of action’ with inhalable version than tablet form
According to New Scientist magazine, Pfizer researchers in Kent, southern England, created a form that’s highly soluble in water and may work […]