The little blue pill that changed the world
So it was with Viagra. Fifteen years ago this week, the-then unnamed drug was failing miserably in clinical trials as a cure for angina when something in the list of side-effects reported by guinea-pig patients caught its manufacturer’s eye.
The drug wasn’t doing much for the heart condition it was meant to help but it was doing something that suggested it could have a very positive effect on another heartbreaker of an affliction — impotence.