Jonathan Amos, BBC News
“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.
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Farra R et al, Science Translational Medicine, 2012
The first clinical trial of an implantable microchip-based drug delivery device is discussed. Human parathyroid hormone fragment [hPTH(1-34)] was delivered from the device in vivo. hPTH(1-34) is the only approved anabolic osteoporosis treatment, but requires daily injections, making patient compliance an obstacle to effective treatment. Furthermore, a net increase in bone mineral density requires intermittent or pulsatile hPTH(1-34) delivery, a challenge for implantable drug delivery products. The microchip-based devices, containing discrete doses of lyophilized hPTH(1-34), were implanted in 8 osteoporotic postmenopausal women for 4 months and wirelessly programmed to release doses from the device once daily for up to 20 days.
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Steve Connor, The Independent
“An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient’s body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.
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Grainne Rothery, siliconrepublic
“The development of a new nanosensor technology that can be up to 1,000 times more sensitive at detecting biological molecules that may indicate the early stages of certain diseases than current devices has been announced today by the Tyndall National Institute.
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Aimable Twahirwa and Naomi Antony, SciDev.Net
“An easy-to-use diagnostic chip could be a game changer in the field of cheap diagnostics for remote regions, claim the researchers who developed it.
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BBC News
“Researchers in Germany have developed a microchip sensor that can be implanted close to a tumour to monitor its growth.
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Kit Eaton, Fast Company
“While you were busy catapulting Angry Birds on your iPhone, scientists at Vanderbilt university were using the components inside your smartphone to create bionic limbs. The Vanderbilt leg, seven years in the making, anticipates the movements of the person wearing it, resulting in a more natural gait instead of the slight dragging experienced by most wearers.
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Isaac Leung, Electronics News
“Medical electronics smacks of the future but is not a new discipline. Electronic devices have been supporting the frail human body for over five decades since the first artificial cardiac pacemaker was implanted in 1958. But, since the turn of the century, medical technology has accelerated dramatically.
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Maureen Salamon, MSN
“Scientists say they have developed a microchip that can be attached to a smart phone and diagnose cancerous tumors within an hour, from the patient’s bedside.
The so-called microNMR chip, which uses magnetic nanoparticles to measure proteins and other chemical compounds in tumors, requires only tiny amounts of tissue to make a diagnosis, researchers said.
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medGadget
“Lab-on-chips are said to be the future of clinical diagnostics. While the technology is still not yet commercially available, researchers are already improving on it to make it even more portable and affordable.
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Alida Budding - Hennink, Medicalfacts
“Vilans, kenniscentrum voor langdurende zorg, test de komende maanden het gebruik van een GPS-chip voor het terugvinden van mensen met dementie. Dit sluit aan bij de wensen van Alzheimer Nederland en het Landelijk bureau vermiste personen.
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ash, biomedme.com
“While most blood tests require shipping a vial of blood to a laboratory for analysis and waiting several days for the results, a new device invented by a team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island uses just a pinprick of blood in a portable device that provides results in less than 30 minutes.
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John D. Sutter, CNN
“A research project in Europe aims to let people self-diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like HIV and syphilis by using their mobile phones.
But don’t worry. You won’t have to pee or spit on your phone, despite what the tech blogs are saying about these efforts.
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eHealthNews.eu
“Detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells in blood is a promising methodology to diagnose cancer dissemination or to follow up cancer patients during therapy. Today, the detection analyses of these cells are performed in medical laboratories requiring labor intensive, expensive and time-consuming sample processing and cell isolation steps.
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APISCAM
“Más del 40 por ciento de la población extremeña contará con la nueva tarjeta sanitaria inteligente antes de finalizar este año 2010. La novedad es que esta Tarjeta Sanitaria contiene un chip que permite almacenar mayor cantidad de datos y que estos se almacenen de forma más segura que en una banda magnética.
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Elizabeth Landau, CNN
“If you have problems remembering to take your meds — or whether you’ve taken them already — some high-tech products on the horizon may be able to help you.
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Jörg Tschürtz, Innovations Report
“Wissenschafter der University of Toronto haben einen Microchip aus Nanomaterial entwickelt, der den Typ und den Schweregrad einer Krebserkrankung rasch identifizieren kann.
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Sunny Bains, NewScientist
“A monkey sits on a bench, wires running from its head and wrist into a small box of electronics. At first the wrist lies limp, but within 10 minutes the monkey begins to flex its muscles and move its hand from side to side. The movements are clumsy, but they are enough to justify a rewarding slug of juice. After all, it shouldn’t be able to move its wrist at all.
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Don Clark, The Wall Street Journal
“Hospitals are costly places. Andrew Thompson hopes his company can help keep people out of them.
His Silicon Valley start-up, Proteus Biomedical Inc., is testing a miniature digestible chip that can be attached to conventional medication, sending a signal that confirms whether patients are taking their prescribed pills.
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El País
“Científicos españoles han desarrollado un chip de ADN para precisar el riesgo cardiovascular teórico a largo plazo, según informa el Hospital del Mar de Barcelona.
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