The Pill is still one of the most common forms of contraception, but it only works if you remember to take it every single day. To remove some of that risk and hassle, researchers at MIT have updated ...

Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day, but missing doses can mean a surprise pregnancy. Now scientists have figured out how to pack a month’s supply into one capsule.

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women’s Hospital created an innovative star-shaped capsule that might help save lives. People do not like taking ...

The gastrointestinal tract is notoriously difficult as a means for long-acting drug delivery--it expels its contents over a matter of hours, so getting any pill to stay in there longer than that is a ...

In the carefully monitored confines of a clinical facility, patients with schizophrenia took what looked like an ordinary multivitamin. But inside each capsule was something that might soon change how ...

I think it’s really cool when a clear pill has teeny tiny balls of medication inside it. I asked my friend Damianne Brand-Eubanks what happens after you swallow one of those capsules. She teaches in ...