Specially shaped oral pills, capsules, tablets, and caplets with impervious coatings for controlled, timed, continuous, sustained or targeted release of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of human and veterinary ailments, namely, infectious diseases, pain, inflammation, sepsis, alopecia and obesity and for the treatment of metabolic, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, genitourinary, sexual dysfunction, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal, hormonal, dermatolog...