New 'smart pills' signal your iPhone -- and more from innovative drug company partnerships
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 15:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Imagine a "smart pill" containing a biodegradable electronic chip that monitors how your body responds to the medicine, broadcasts the information to your iPhone, which then emails the information to your physician. It may sound like science fiction, but drug companies have been studying just such an approach, according to an article in the current edition of ACS's Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.