New study reveals erectile dysfunction drug could treat heart failure too

In the 1990s, the US drug firm Pfizer was developing drugs to treat angina. During early trials of these drugs, male participants reported a striking side effect: they were getting erections. This discovery led to the development of drugs to treat erectile dysfunction. Our latest study shows that one of these erectile dysfunction drugs (Cialis) is very effective at treating a particular type of heart failure in sheep.

Heart failure is a devastating condition that occurs when the heart is too weak to pump blood around the body. People with heart failure