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05/23/2016 / By JD Heyes

Big Pharma set to start microchipping drugs

Wait, what? Yes, it’s true; the age of the pharmaceutical microchip has arrived. Novartis AG, one of the world’s biggest of the Big Pharmas, said in 2010 that it planned to begin embedding microchips in its medications as a means of creating “smart pills.” The technology was licensed from Proteus Biomedical of Redwood City, Calif., […]

12/04/2015 / By Julie Wilson

FDA approves psychotropic “smart pill” that mines personal health data while coercing users to take Big Pharma drugs

The expansiveness of data mining has reached a whole new level with the development of a “smart pill” capable of measuring and documenting your body’s physiological responses and other personal health information. Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Co. and Proteus Digital Health joined forces to develop a schizophrenia drug embedded with an ingestible sensor in a single tablet. […]

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