The compressed tablet is the most popular dosage form in use today.

Prior to compressed tablets, medicine was usually taken in bulkier powder form.

The most common form of prenatal vitamin is the compressed tablet which is available through all channels and at various quality levels.

Menthol is available in lozenges and in compressed tablets.

It is used as a binding agent in the preparation of lozenges, pastilles and compressed tablets.

Dimensional Foods is also developing methods for embossing compressed tablets with holographic colors and images.

About two-thirds of all prescriptions are dispensed as solid dosage forms, and half of these are compressed tablets.

It wasn't until parents complained about the grainy, sticky powder that Sunline came up with a compressed tablet form, the SweeTart in 1963.

In manufacturing of compressed tablets, the mixing or blending of several solid pharmaceutical ingredients is easier and more uniform if the ingredients are about the same size.

Alprazolam is available for oral administration in compressed tablet (CT) and extended-release capsule (XR) formulations.

In 1872, Henry Bower, an employee of Wyeth, developed one of the first rotary compressed tablet machines in the United States.

Some compressed tablets of powdered A. flos-aquae cyanobacteria (named as "blue green algae") have been sold as food supplements, notably those filtered from Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon.

The word "tabloid" comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s.

While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term 'tabloid' in popular culture.

In 1933 the firm merged with a rival factory owner, David Dee, who specialised in fizzy compressed tablet sweets (although the company officially became Swizzels Matlow Ltd only in 1975).