Once-a-Day Heart Combo Pill Wows Researchers

By the Associated Press

Posted Mar 30, 2009 6:29 PM CDT

(AP) – It's been a dream for a decade: a single daily pill combining aspirin, cholesterol medicine and a blood pressure drug—everything people need to prevent heart attacks and strokes in a cheap, generic form. Skeptics pooh-poohed it, but now the first big test of the... Read full story »

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