Wednesday 15 November 2017

New trackable pill knows when it has been taken and can talk to doctors

New trackable pill knows when it has been taken and can talk to doctors US regulators are allowing doctors use the first intuitive medicine, which knows whether or not it has been taken.

The “trackable” pill can talk to doctors and tell them whether their patients have taken the drugs they need.

The pill was first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2002 to treat schizophrenia, and the sensor technology was allowed to be marketed in 2012. Now the FDA says the two can work together – by sending a message from a sensor in the pill to a patch the patient wears – to digitally-enhance people’s treatment. The Independent

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