Grey Schuebert
Mrs. Mellette
HMP
March 29, 2012
Review of Article
In an article written by Rebecca Cheung for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she discusses a breakthrough in telemedicine technology involving microchips. MicroCHIPS Inc. conducted a study involving placing a microchip under the skin, then wirelessly injected medicine into the body. The idea for the process was first introduced ten years ago by scientists at MIT, but it ran into some obstacles such as the skin healing around the microchip, thus blocking the flow of the medicine into the bloodstream. The study was conducted on eight women with osteoporosis. They were all injected with the microchip, and over the next two months the chip would pump the women with their medicine precisely on time, everyday. “This opens up profound possibilities for improving the treatment of patients and the potential of telemedicine,” said Robert Farra, president of MicroCHIPS Inc. There are still some kinks that need to be worked out, however. John Watson, a bio-engineering researcher, said that the consistency of the chips needs to be improved. One of the eight chips wouldn’t inject medicine.
Works Cited
Cheung, Rebecca. "Wireless Drug Delivery Achieved." American Association for the Advancement of Science 181.5 (2012). Web. 29 Mar. 2012.
Is this not totally amazing? I saw something similar to this in an article about improving athelete's training. This team of doctors and sport's physiologists had planted a 'chip' on the muscle of a U.S. Olympic sprinter getting all sorts of feed back other muscle performance, etc.
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