Microchips Will Make Sure Patients Swallow Their Drugs As Directed

September 22nd, 2009

Via: Financial Times:

Patients who fail to pop pills on time could soon benefit from having a chip on their shoulder, under a ground-breaking electronic system being developed by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group.

The company is testing technology that inserts a tiny microchip into each pill swallowed and sends a reminder to patients by text message if they fail to follow their doctors’ prescriptions.

Research Credit: j crash

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One Response to “Microchips Will Make Sure Patients Swallow Their Drugs As Directed”

  1. anothernut says:
    September 22, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Ooooo, it’s ground-breaking, it must be good!

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