Telemedicine - remotely medicating you in a timely fashion
What if you have a chronic condition that requires regular medication at regular intervals - would it be a big enough inconvenience for you from achieving a good quality of life? Would you fear going on holidays abroad in case you lose your medication, or would you fail to remember to take the prescriptions altogether?
Well, all those worries may soon become a thing of the past as MIT researchers have, after years of research, developed and successfully tested the first wirelessly controlled drug-delivery chip.
According to The Next Web
The programmable microchip contains capsules of medicine, and is implanted into a patient. Medicine is then released according to whatever regimen was prescribed. Professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima hope that the device will someday allow patients to receive consistent and reliable treatment without the painful task of daily injections.
What a great idea… now just to figure out the security mechanism so hackers can’t maliciously take over the wireless signals and administer fatal doses from far, far away. (Sounds like a new genre of murder sci-fi thriller…)
(Source: thenextweb.com)
