 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Viagra reaches new peaks - fighting altitude sickness.(Foreign News)
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The Independent (London, England)
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September 9, 2003| Author:
Lichfield, John
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Byline: John Lichfield
THE IMPOTENCE drug Viagra may help to combat altitude sickness, doctors believe. Tests involving 12 French volunteers who spent eight days camping near the top of Mont Blanc were described as encouraging yesterday. The middle-aged volunteers pedalled exercise bicycles at 4,360 metres watched by doctors working with Professor Jean-Paul Richalet of the University of Paris 13, an authority on environment-related illness. Half o...