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Although pharmacy cough and cold sections have long been filled with remedies that combine four and even five ingredients to stop sniffles, fever, congestion and headache in a single dose, prescription drugs are increasingly offered as combination therapies as well.

Pills that include two The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a medication, Atripla, that combines three drugs to treat HIV.

Although physicians treating medical conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure often start patients on just a single drug until they can see how well it works and what the side effects are, that could begin to change.

Two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration held a hearing to consider...

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