An edible electronic(Digital health)sensor might be the first step to regulating your medication patterns.




  Edible sensors might be the first step to regulating  your  medication patterns.


 


 



If you perpetually forget to take your medicine, these new FDA-approved edible sensors might be the first step to regulating your medication patterns.
            When you hear the term electronic pills, you might be imagining some sort of hardwired chips that you’re supposed to unwillingly ingest. This isn’t quite the case. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration passed an edible electronic sensor on Monday that will be used to keep track of a patient’s medication patterns to ensure they are regularly taking their meds.
Proteus Digital Health, Inc. has developed a tiny, digestible sensor that aims to transmit data to an online app to help improve a patient’s health habits and patterns. These sensors can be integrated into any medically ingested products.
           Once the pill is consumed and the sensor reaches the patient’s stomach fluids, data transmission is activated to determine the time of ingestion straight onto an external app. Patients will have to wear a patch on their skin to receive the data while the patch will also calculate heart rate, body position, and physical activity. This information can be relayed to the patient’s doctor or caretaker to evaluate his or her health patterns to help them make better health choices.
 
           The technology makes sense considering many people often forget to take their pills, especially if some are required to be taken at a certain time of day. It’s also a good reminder for those who might have forgotten whether they have taken their dose for the day or not.
“This device could be a solution to that problem, so that doctors can know when to rev up a patient’s medication adherence,” said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. “It’s like big brother watching you take your medicine.”
For those who are avert to the idea of eating microchips, you might be happy to know the sensors are made of silicon, magnesium, and copper so once the pill has been consumed and broken down, you actually earn a bit of minerals in your body.
           “The FDA validation represents a major milestone in digital medicine,” said Topol. “Directly digitizing pills, for the first time, in conjunction with our wireless infrastructure, may prove to be the new standard for influencing medication adherence and significantly aid chronic disease management.”
We could only wonder how long it will take before such integration will come to regular food products? If incorporated into healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables, perhaps parents can keep track of whether or not their children are eating their greens and ingesting them properly. The ability to track nutrition breakdown via an edible sensor might also help us regulate food intake without the need to take blood tests to identify malnourished nutrients and minerals.
 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Graphene from gases for new, bendable electronics

Image
Graphene from gases for new, bendable electronics. Flexible, translucent and ultrathin, layers of carbon atoms called graphene are also excellent electrical conductors that could find use in flexible computer displays, molecular electronics and new wireless communications. Making high-quality graphene sheets is usually a slow, painstaking process, but now several research groups have discovered ways to make patterned graphene circuits using techniques borrowed from microchip manufacturing, which can be scaled up for mass production. Layers of graphene — carbon atoms arranged in a chicken-wire pattern one atom thick — can be manually peeled away from the graphite in pencils using adhesive tape. In contrast, the new technique causes carbon atoms in a vapor of hydrocarbons to settle onto a nickel surface and arrange into graphene’s characteristic pattern of hexagons. Using standard chip-making techniques, circuit designs are etched into the nickel surface. As the graphene layer
Read more

Atomtronics trying to replace Electronics....Using Ultracold Atoms Instead of Electrons, Atomtronics Could Revolutionize Computing

Image
Atomtronics trying to replace Electronics... We all have heard of electronics, mechatronics and maybe even spintronics, but the latest buzzword doing the rounds of physics labs is atomtronics—the science of creating circuits, devices and materials using ultra-cold atoms instead of electrons Electronics is the field of electron movement in the circuits governed by the use of wires, silicon and electricity. All modern electronic devices contain transistors as the fundamental building blocks. Until recently, electronics had been based on a single property of electrons—their charge. But now physicists have begun to exploit another property—electron spin. So-called spintronics promises to revolutionise electronics because it allows information to be encoded in an entirely new way. Though electronics is bestowed with a large number of inherited advantages, but in the era of quantum electronics it is facing new challenges. Because electrons lose any possible initial quantum sta
Read more

Wireless Battery Charging.

Image
Wireless Mobile Battery Charger Circuit  0.1  Wireless Battery Charger Circuit Principle:       1  Wireless Power Transfer Circuit Diagram: 1.1  Wireless Mobile Charger Circuit Design:  1.2  How to operate this Wireless Power Transfer Circuit? 1.3  Wireless Battery Charger Circuit Advantages: 1.4  Wireless Power Transfer Circuit Applications: 1.5  Limitations of the Circuit:  Wireless Battery Charger   Emerging technologies are making our life simpler these days. With the introduction of mobile phones, life has changed rapidly. This is a dream of radio engineering. Mobile phones merged land line telephone systems. These days, many advancements in the mobile phones were introduced. These advancements provide many services such as text, internet etc. But although there are many advancements in the technology, we still rely on the wired battery chargers. Each phone will have its own designed battery charger. Thus the battery chargers are required to carry everywhere to keep the battery ba
Read more