‘Pharmacy on a chip’ gets closer-microchips being implanted under a patient’s skin to control the release of drugs

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US scientists say they have taken a step towards microchips being implanted under a patient’s skin to control the release of drugs. The futuristic idea that microchips could be implanted under a patient’s skin to control the release of drugs has taken another step forward. US scientists have been testing just such a device on women with the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis. The chip was inserted in their waist and activated by remote control. A clinical trial, reported in Science Translational Medicine, showed the chip could administer the correct doses and that there were no side effects.
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