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Many drugs can't withstand stomach acid – a new delivery method could lead to more convenient medications

  • Written by Khatcher O. Margossian, MD/PhD Candidate in Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
Many drugs can't withstand stomach acid – a new delivery method could lead to more convenient medicationsA new polymer could help the medicine go down easier.Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images

For patients and physicians, taking medications orally is often the most desirable way to administer drugs. Among other advantages, swallowing a pill is safer, more convenient and less invasive compared to injections or other ways to take a drug.

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