Philips iPill

Philips Research, a branch of the Dutch electronics giant, will soon begin testing in animals of an electronic pill that can deliver a drug to a precise location in the GI tract.  The device includes both pH and temperature sensors that figure in the pill’s location, a fluid pump to disperse a medication at multiple points, a wireless transceiver that connects with a control device outside the body, and a silver oxide battery that holds a charge for about twice the time (48hrs) that a normal pill takes to transit the body.  The whole thing is about the size of a Tylenol capsule.  MORE 

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