Coming soon: many drugs in one pill
A new study provides strong support for the concept of a single pill that contains multiple medications used to fight heart disease. The idea stems from the decades-old practice of bundling two or three medications into one pill to treat a single disease, such as high blood pressure. The new combination pills put even more medicines into one pill. These medicines fight heart disease directly as well as indirectly by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol. Many doctors have been skeptical of packaging multiple medications into one pill, yet two prior studies have provided support for the concept in reducing heart disease.
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