Printable prescription pills will be safer and faster-acting.

''GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has developed a way of printing active pharmaceutical ingredients onto tablets. Currently the process can only be applied to just 0.5 percent of all medicines used in tablet form, but a collaboration between GSK, the University of Leeds and Durham University hopes to see this increase to 40 percent.''

- http://www.gizmag.com/printable-prescription-pills/15326/

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Yes this is an essential area of research as insuring that medications contain the exact ingredients and that this is standardized would greatly benefit people because the size, shape color and inactive ingredients of medication capsules and tablets vary and there can be confusion as to what is the specific appropriate dose. As well a person can react to the inactive ingredients which can sometimes vary. As technology advances not just the treatments themselves but the method of delivery of treatments will continue to be researched with means to insure safer and more effective dosing.