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Medications used to treat heart failure include diuretics, which reduce tissue swelling and can be administered orally or intravenously.

"We now have a new class of molecules that are potently active but do not degrade in the stomach or intestine, meaning they can be taken orally."

Their work revealed a critical difference between vitamin C given intravenously and vitamin C taken orally.

The antimalarial is administered orally as soon as patients learn they are pregnant and, if taken on regularly, can significantly reduce the chances of severe malaria over the course of gestation.

In the future, the gel could be taken orally before or during alcohol consumption to prevent blood alcohol levels from rising and acetaldehyde from damaging the body.