Implantable Health Microchip Make Pharmacy Obsolete One More Thing

Implantable Health Microchip Make Pharmacy Obsolete One More Thing

Implantable Health Microchip Make Pharmacy Obsolete - One More Thing -...

Pharmacy on a Chip

Implantable microchip remotely provides up to a year s worth of medicine on a precise schedule

A developing technology will allow patients to forgo both long lines at the pharmacy and . An implantable microchip may be available in four years that delivers automatically without the patient having to remember to take his daily dose.

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Courtesy AARP Broadcast A microchip that is surgically implanted into a person's body could make trips to the pharmacy obsolete. , developed the concept of an implantable drug delivery system after watching a public television documentary on computers. The small chip, which is implanted below the waist and under the skin, can release the correct amount of medicine into the body at precise times. , the company responsible for the implant delivery system, concluded its outside of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Robert Farra, COO of MicroCHIPS, and Langer are already looking to other new technologies that can be built around the microchip. You may also like:

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