Why combination pills aren’t always the answer

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The challenges of medicines containing multiple drugs aren’t going away

We’ve all seen people who are taking several prescriptions at once, working their way through a list of different-sized pills. (Some of us may be those people!) It’s natural to wonder about why things can’t be made more convenient, by combining well-known combinations into single pills. There are some of these on the market, but why aren’t there more?