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Viagra gum launches in Italy

Italian men now have access to Viagra chewing gum, which costs up to 70 percent less than the traditional version of the impotence drug, after it was launched by a Milan-based company.

Published: 17 October 2013 10:55 CEST
Viagra gum launches in Italy
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The gum, which contains Sildenafil Citrate (Viagra), is thought to be "easier on the stomach and faster acting".

The gum was presented by Doc Generics at a conference in Milan on Tuesday, Articolo Tre reported.

Three million Italian men suffer from erectile dysfunction. A record 60 million Viagra pills have been sold in Italy over the past ten years, making it the second largest market in Europe behind the UK.

Sales have also shot up in Italy since pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's patent for Viagra expired in June, paving the way for rivals to produce cheaper versions of the drug.

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Romanian billionaire and seven others die in Milan plane crash

A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and son, and all five others aboard.

Published: 4 October 2021 09:07 CEST
Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato.
Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato on October 3rd. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1pm headed for Olbia in the north of the Italian island of Sardinia.

It crashed just a few minutes later into a building in San Donato Milanese, a town southeast of Milan, according to aviation agency ANSV, which has opened an investigation.

Witnesses said the plane was already in flames before it crashed into an office building undergoing renovations.

Petrescu’s 65-year-old wife, who also had French nationality, and their son Dan Stefano, 30, were killed.

Italian media identified the other passengers as entrepreneur Filippo Nascimbene, a 33-year-old from Lombardy, with his wife, young son and mother-in-law, who have French nationality.

Petrescu, 68, was one of Romania’s richest men. He headed a major construction firm and owned a string of hypermarkets and malls. He also held Germany nationality, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.

Flames engulfed the two-storey building, next to the yellow line subway terminus.

“The impact was devastating,” Carlo Cardinali, of the Milan fire brigade, told news agency Ansa.

Deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano was quoted by Corriere as saying that the plane’s black box had been recovered.

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