TAKE five tried-and-tested drugs and one well-known vitamin. Mix them into a single pill and give it to everyone over the age of 55. Stand back as deaths from heart attacks and strokes plummet by an astonishing 80 per cent and life expectancy soars…
The idea is so bold and simple that when British scientists unveiled the concept of the polypill last week, many people just didn’t know how to react. Would the pill be a lifesaving innovation on a par with the invention of vaccines and antibiotics, or an unnecessary – and possibly risky – recipe for the mass…
