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 Rizwan Bashirullah Forgot to take the medicine? Then you are not alone. But is it too often, it is not good for your health. Researchers at the University of Florida claims to now have the solution to the problem, smart pills, which reports when they reach the traveler. Behind the solution lies Rizwan Bashirullah and his colleagues at the University of Florida. The trick is to provide a standard pill capsule with a small antenna in silver and a microchip. The latter contains sensors can measure everything from body temperature to pH. Both the antenna and the circuit communicate with a transmitter, which sends weak low-frequency signals into the body. The transmitter sits today in a small bracelet, but the idea is that in the future to be built into mobile phones or watches. When the pill reaches the stomach sends a signal to the receiver and let the time. Included drug in a clinical study can microcircuit also report on other data. Asking patients to eat the silver is not without controversy. The researchers argue that the amount of silver in a tablet is not greater than the amount contained in a glass of water. - The idea of this project has always been to have a biocompatible antenna, and that break down after a short time in the body. The technology behind the smart pill is now patent pending and researchers formed the company e-Text to take technology on the market. The first target will be pharmaceutical companies which reported the capsule to provide safer and cheaper clinical trials. To people in the clinical studies did not take the drugs to be evaluated is now a problem for the industry. The solution is to have staff that ensures that all participants swallow pills as they will cost businesses big money. So far the technology has been tested in artificial human stomachs, as well as in animals. The company has now sought the permission of the FDA, the U.S. Food and Drug Authority, to test the technique on humans. |
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