The medicine Tadapox is used to treat male impotence, which is also called erectile dysfunction. When men lose the desire to have sex, this drug makes them want to have sex more. Also, this drug gets rid of the symptoms of a swollen prostate in men. It does this by relaxing the smooth muscle in the bladder of the prostate. But it doesn't do much to stop diseases like HIV, Hepatitis B, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis that are spread through sexual contact. In the US, this drug was approved by the FDA in 1998. After that, this medicine was made available to the public in 2003.

The drug Tadapox 20 mg was a big hit on the pharmaceutical market. Sales of the drug brought in $1 billion. ICOS, a biotechnology company, was in charge of its development in the beginning. Also, Tadapox 80 was successfully sold all over the world by Lilly ICOS, LLC, which was a partnership between ICOS Cooperation and Eli Lilly and Company.