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Your Pills Called: It's Time for You to Take Them

By SVM | Published: August 17, 2009

According to recent numbers, 50% of all Americans are prescribed approximately one pill per day. That’s a lot of people, a lot of pills, and undoubtedly many, many missed doses. These days, remembering to take your pills is often even more difficult than getting them, especially for senior citizens.
Massachusetts-based Vitality, Inc. has [...]

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Bedside Diagnosis, Courtesy of Your Cell Phone

By SVM | Published: May 29, 2009

Really cool news out of the UK today: experts there claim they are on the verge of perfecting a tiny mobile phone microchip to diagnose medical conditions on the spot. According to execs at Orla Protein Technologies and Tokyo-based Japan Radio Company, the diminutive device will read swabs and blood tests and slot into a [...]

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