November 10, 2010
Novartis’ ‘smart-pill’ may be ‘watching you’ by 2012
Novartis says it plans to submit its microchip containing ‘smart-pill’ technology to European regulators within 18 months. The silicon and metal digestible sensor within the tablet, which is activated by stomach acid upon ingestion, is able to transmit data via wireless and Bluetooth connections to a patch worn by the patient, and from there, to a smartphone or a doctor’s computer.
Read article at in-pharmatechnologist.com
Comment: The pharmaceutical industry portrays itself as an industry fighting to prevent and eliminate diseases but, behind the pretext of this noble cause, it is demanding blind obedience from hundreds of millions of patients. As with the breath-monitoring device developed by researchers at the University of Florida and Xhale, some might argue that one of the long-term goals with these so-called “smart pills” could possibly be to force patients into taking patented chemical drug medicines by nullifying their medical and/or life insurance if it is discovered they have discontinued them.
Posted By: Marta Fernandez
Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 12:56PM
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