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posted by martyb on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-pill-two-pill-red-pill-blue-pill dept.

Viagra will be sold over-the-counter for the first time:

Men will no longer require a prescription to obtain the impotence drug Viagra and will instead be able to buy it over the counter at pharmacies.

The decision by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency follows a public consultation. It will be up to pharmacists to judge whether men over the age of 18 can safely be sold the little blue pills.

Manufacturer Pfizer hopes to get stocks of Viagra Connect (sildenafil 50mg) into UK pharmacies by spring 2018.

Related: News About Pfizer's Most Popular Pill

NOTE: Knowing this story was about to get posted, I took it upon myself to update a couple of site filters to allow use of the words 'viagra' and 'sildenafil' in user comments. Unfortunately, that revealed a bug in code we inherited from slashcode and which caused the site to be unable to accept any comments. I should have tested the changes with a test comment, but was pressed for time to push out a few stories into a nearly empty story queue while hurrying to get out the door. I had successfully used the same technique on other filters in the past, so I have no idea what went wrong with this time. But that's neither here nor there. The site was unable to accept comments after the change (about two hour's time). I apologize and will be more mindful of trusting the site's code in the future! --martyb


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @01:41PM (#603417)

    The older people voted overwhelmingly to leave. The younger people who voted to remain and have erectile dysfunction should stop drinking soy lattes.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:24PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:24PM (#603599) Journal

    Soy isn't dangerous to men, I'm told, so you can stop worrying about your precious bodily fluids, and the dispensers thereof. I, on the other hand, need to be careful, because too much of the phytoestrogens can do bad things to a person's ovaries. It's not the soy lattes that are hurting our menfolk, okay?

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...