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	Viagra helps altitude sickness
	Viagra has given wildlife a boost
	Viagra was originally made for treating cardiovascular diseases
	The recent researches show that Viagra may treat a serious condition of heart-Hypertrophy.
	Vanderbilt's children's doctors now using Viagra to treat seriously ill babies born with congenital pulmonary disease.

Viagra helps altitude sickness

The key to Viagra's success as an erectile dysfunction treatment may also help heart and lung problems caused by high altitudes, a new report says. At high altitudes, blood vessels in some people can constrict too much and create excess, even dangerous, pressure on the heart and lungs. Viagra causes blood vessels to relax and expand and, accordingly, can help counteract the effects of high altitudes.

Viagra has given wildlife a boost

With the entry of Viagra as an anti-impotency drug in the year 1998 its success has been widely pronounced by now in the world. Because of this, there has been a significant drop in the killing of such wild animals whose body parts have been used so far for the making of such drugs which were assumed to be helpful in treating male impotency in the humans. Moreover, Viagra is cheaper than many animal products and its action is also immediate and effective. The killing of hooded seals and harped seals which were hunted for their genitalia, reduced nearly by 50% from 1996 to 1998. The number of seal penises which were being traded fell from 40,000 in 1996 to 20,000 in 1998.

Viagra was originally made for treating cardiovascular diseases

Viagra was originally not made for treating erectile dysfunction, but for curing cardiovascular diseases. But when it was reported that the side effects showed that viagra can treat erectile dysfunction, it was since then manufactured and marketed as an anti-impotent drug.

The recent researches show that Viagra may treat a serious condition of heart-Hypertrophy.

Viagra is prescribed by the doctors and the spam world wide for treating the erectile dysfunction in men but Viagra may also treat a common and fatal feature of heart failure. A larger than normal heart known as hypertrophy in the medical jargon is a serious condition of heart which can lead to fatal heart failure. The researches show that Viagra can make hypertrophy go away.

Vanderbilt's children's doctors now using Viagra to treat seriously ill babies born with congenital pulmonary disease.

Chronic pulmonary hypertension is virtually a death sentence in the new born babies. In the case of six months old Hartley Wilson, the pediatric cardiologist at the Vanderbilt children's hospital, U.S.A. had to make a difficult decision. Shortly after birth, Hartley had emergency surgery to correct a heart defect known as total anomalous pulmonary venous return. Barely after two months he again returned to the hospital. The blood pressure in his lungs was five or six times more than the normal pressure and the right side of his heart was not functioning properly. To treat his condition a very expensive drug inhaler nitric oxide was used. Recent studies have shown that in a similar condition the adults can get relief if they are administered Viagra. A small but growing body of preliminary studies showed that it could work on babies as well. But Dr. Moore, the pediatric cardiologist treating the child was still not sure but still he went ahead and started giving smaller doses of Viagra. When the child showed improvement, the doses were gradually increased. And this decision of Dr. Moore was finally successful in saving the life of the child.