THEY come in mint, orange and other fruity flavours, and melt in your mouth. No, these aren’t the latest candy craze. They’re the next generation of prescription drugs.
A few prescription pills of the new pleasant-tasting, melt-in-your-mouth kind have been quietly introduced in the US and Europe. For instance, CIMA Labs of Minnesota last year introduced fast-melting versions of the migraine drug Zomig and the antidepressant Remeron in the US.
People are responding so well that many pharmaceuticals companies are looking to make their most successful brands more palatable. “There have only been about seven prescription products for a couple…
