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Company making medicine easier to swallow plans development center

If you want to understand the swallowing challenges faced by people with Parkinson’s disease, ask is a speech therapist at a nursing home. That’s one way a company with a device to convert pills and capsules into custom-flavored liquids approached the issue of how to make medicine more palatable. Patients’ & Consumers’ Pharma’s approach harkens […]

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Company addressing pill swallowing problem raising $3.2 million

A company developing a device to convert pills and capsules into custom-flavored liquids where no liquid alternative is available is raising $3.2 million. The device will focus on elderly and pediatric patients who have trouble swallowing, such as people with Parkinson’s disease. There is an estimated market of 62 million compounding operations per year in […]