New health worries about Cialis, rivals?

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, January 15, 2006

Reuters broke the news this afternoon that a new small-scale study found that Cialis, Viagra and Levitra can damage the sight of some patients.

You might remember last summer a few reports of patients experiencing a loss of vision created dire headlines and prompted the drug makers to add another warning to their labels.

Here’s the story from Reuters: http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=10866265&src=rss/healthNews or http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060117/hl_nm/impotence_dc

And from the Daily Telegraph in London: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/17/wsight17.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/17/ixworld.html

Then, from a medical journal Web site, here’s a report of a 31-year-old professional singer who took Levitra one night and woke up the next morning with a vocal cord problem. The article brings up the question of whether this could happen with other PDE-5 inhibitors like Levitra and Cialis:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/PublicHealth/tb/2487