Times were hard in Merthyr Tydfil in the 1990s. Men, many laid off from the steelworks, were recruited to test a new drug for combating high blood pressure and angina.
A volunteer told (vide the BBC News app today 8th) a BBC documentary how much the extra money meant to him, augmented perhaps by the drug's unexpected side-effects.
“It was very hard times for us”, he said.
The drug was later named Viagra
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stewamax wrote:Times were hard in Merthyr Tydfil in the 1990s. Men, many laid off from the steelworks, were recruited to test a new drug for combating high blood pressure and angina.
High blood pressure and angina are issues for both sexes. Which might beg a question or two
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