Push Button Medicine, Cool Medical Tech!

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a technology that could be used by your doctor to give medicine over the phone.

Here’s the article

Imagine a tiny chip with packets of medicine attached to a release mechanism like a rip cord. The doctor monitors some aspect of your body’s chemistry or responds to your phoned in symptom. The doc pushes a button at her house and a radio signal tells the chip to open up one or more of the nano packets, releasing the medicine into your bloodstream.

That’s what the researchers hope to use their invention for. The technique uses similar technology as that used in silicone chip manufacture to created tiny, separately commanded areas on the “Bio Chip” making it easy to load each section up with almost any combination of treatments. Way cool!

Check back for more cool medical news this weekend on the MedicCast Episode 33.

Jamie

the Podmedic