Was Viagra the best heart drug we never had?
Prologue: the lost opportunity
Everyone knows Viagra as the “little blue pill” that revolutionized the bedroom. But what if its greatest potential was never about sex, but about saving lives?
A long-term study from Manchester followed men with both diabetes and a prior heart attack, about as high-risk a group as you can imagine. The results were astonishing: those who used sildenafil (Viagra) had a thirty-eight percent lower risk of another …