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Published online 27 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030623-13
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A healthy heart in a single pill
'Polypill' could curb heart disease and stroke.
A single pill given to everyone aged over 55 could cut heart disease in developed countries by 80%, a group of medical researchers say.
The treatment, dubbed the Polypill, would combine existing drugs to create a single medicine that would reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
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