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medicines go down without the sugar  18 October 2010 Bradford,
University of  A spoonful of sugar is the traditional way to
help medicines ‘go down’. But getting young children to take
foul-tasting medicines – even if their lives depend on it –
requires more than a bit of added sweetener. According to the
World Health Organisation (WHO), each year over eight million
children die of diseases that could be avoided if essential
medicines were available in appropriate formulations for
children.  Now researchers from the University of Bradford are
working with colleagues from China to make some of the most
bitter tasting medicines, from both Western and traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM), easier to swallow. The aim of the
research is to develop a suite of technologies that can mask the
horrid taste of essential children’s medicines in liquid form
for use across the world.  Liquids are often seen as the most
appropriate formulation for use with children,