Viagra `works for women'

Liverpool - Use of Viagra will spread as rapidly among women as it will among men, a doctor said yesterday

Liverpool - Use of Viagra will spread as rapidly among women as it will among men, a doctor said yesterday. Mr Derek Machin, a consultant urologist in Liverpool, said women will be using the anti-impotence drug, expected to be licensed for men in the autumn, within months of it being available on the UK's health service.

Mr Machin said the word among the 400 urologists in the UK was that Viagra also worked for women.

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