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Yessi Pratiwi — March 13, 2008 / 3:59 pm
People taking medication should be aware about what medication he/she has, the doses of medicine, and what time will they taken.
In line with this caution, recently, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have a possible solution for the one in three adults who fail to take their medicines as prescribed by their doctors.
They designed a device to minimize the forgetfulness. Taking not the right dose, or maybe wrong time, of course may cause problems in elderly. The device designed come as a sensor necklace, that records the date and time a pill is swallowed, which they hope will increase drug compliance and decrease unnecessary health care costs.
It is also could be used to ensure that subjects in clinical drug trials take the study medications as directed by the research team. The details of the proof-of-concept device were published in the December 2007 issue of the IEEE Sensors Journal.
Adapted from materials provided by Georgia Institute of Technology, via ScienceDaily.
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