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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a "digital pill" that contains a sensor intended to track whether a patient has taken their medicine:
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine. The approval, announced late on Monday, marks a significant advance in the growing field of digital devices designed to monitor medicine-taking and to address the expensive, longstanding problem that millions of patients do not take drugs as prescribed.
Experts estimate that so-called non-adherence or noncompliance to medication costs about $100 billion a year, much of it because patients get sicker and need additional treatment or hospitalization. "When patients don't adhere to lifestyle or medications that are prescribed for them, there are really substantive consequences that are bad for the patient and very costly," said Dr. William Shrank, chief medical officer of the health plan division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Ameet Sarpatwari, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, said the digital pill "has the potential to improve public health," especially for patients who want to take their medication but forget. But, he added, "if used improperly, it could foster more mistrust instead of trust."
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 15 2017, @06:26PM (1 child)
July 10, 2013 was my last colonoscopy. I did it for the cancer, for a cancer check. I wouldn't do it for the hiccups. It's like some form of punishment. There has to be some form of punishment for folks who get the hiccups or don't take their medicine? No, I don't think so. Not even for getting an abortion, for the gals who get pregnant and they want an abortion. The woman is a victim in this case, as is the life in her womb. If we ban abortion -- @VP Pence keeps reminding me about the ban -- the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. You punish the doctor. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:52PM
In good form as always, leading me to ask: where's the "WTF did I just read?" mod?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?