It’s not unusual to find people being treated with 2 or 3 blood pressure medications, 1 to 2 cholesterol medications, 3 to 4 diabetes medications, and aspirin to prevent these problems. Now scientists have suggested putting the key medications into a single pill, called the polypill. They project that this pill alone will lower heart disease by 80%. The polypill is currently undergoing testing in the United States and may well find its way to the market by 2008 or 2009.

Click here to read the original article which proposed this approach.