Swallowing it causes the coating to dissolve, which releases the antenna. This activates a radio-frequency tag, providing a time stamp for ingestion to be picked up by a nearby reader, like a wearable ...

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For one reason or another, as many as half the patients in the United States don't take the medication that is prescribed to them at a cost to the US healthcare system of $290 billion a year in waste.

MIT engineers design smart pill that confirms medication ingestion using biodegradable antenna technology. The pill safely ...

Proteus Digital Health has raised $120 million from new, undisclosed investors described as "major new institutional investors based in the United States, Europe and Asia." The company will use the ...

Centor Inc., a Gerresheimer company and leading provider of regulatory compliant prescription containers and remote care solutions, adds a brand-new smart weekly pill organizer to its solution ...

Countless patients, and their loved ones, struggle with maintaining rigid and complex medication regimens day in and day out. Moreover, doctors lack reliable ways to monitor compliance. Now, MIT ...

A newly developed “smart pill” that can confirm whether a medication has actually been swallowed could one day change how doctors track prescription use. Created by researchers at MIT along with ...

Your medication might start tattling on you if you skip a dose. Scientists at MIT have developed a groundbreaking smart pill that can wirelessly report the moment it’s been swallowed, giving doctors a ...