A team of experts from the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, Australia, has developed a simple analysis to determine instantly the blood group of a person at a cost of only a few cents.

The analysis requires placing a drop of blood on a specially treated paper strip. (more…)

In the search for a way to confirm that patients have taken their medicine, researchers at the University of Florida have added a tiny microchip and tiny antenna and also equally palatable to the standard pill capsule. Prototype is intended to pave the way for mass production of pills which, when ingested, it will automatically alert the medical staff, relatives of the patient, or scientists who work with volunteers in clinical trials of medicines.

This is indeed a very safe way to monitor whether a patient is taking their medication as prescribed.

Such pills swallowed warning function are necessary because many patients forget or refuse to take their medicine, or wrong to do so. This causes or exacerbates health problems, increased hospitalizations or medical treatments and subtraction reliability trials on new drugs. (more…)