Article: Drug warnings to note hearing loss

By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Cialis and other impotence drugs are about to bear new warnings that users may have sudden hearing loss.

It's not clear that the drugs truly trigger hearing loss, but the Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday to add a warning about the possible risk after counting 29 reports of the problem since 1996 among users of this family of medicines.

Viagra, Cialis and Levitra will bear the warnings. So will Revatio, a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra.

Viagra's label already mentioned hearing loss as a possibility because a few cases were reported during testing of that drug. But given that hearing loss is a ...

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