Tag: MEDICATION

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords -- especially when they're the ones dispensing meds. UCSF Medical Center's new robotic pharmacist is a massive drug-dispensing machine that removes the "human-error" variable from the sometimes-tedious task of measuring and packaging doses. According to UCSF, the robotic pharmacist hasn't messed up once in 350,000 dispensations. All hail the robots! ...

In a radical new study, South Korean psychiatrists at Chung Ang University, College of Medicine, claim to have reduced participants' desire to spend hours online playing 'Starcraft' by dosing them with antidepressants. According to Wired UK, 11 participants in the study took doses of Bupropion, which also reduces the desire to smoke, over a six-week period. These participants were chosen because ...

Often, getting a patient to remember to take his or her medication is the most difficult part about treating an illness. Last month, we told you about new pill-bottle caps that glow and beep as a reminder. And now, some researchers at the University of Florida have developed pills that snitch on patients who don't swallow them down. According to CNET News, the pills are printed with a nontoxic ink ...

Putting in eye drops is a pain. Applying drops into your eyes is a hard enough challenge, made even more frustrating by the fact that one mistimed blink will find you with drops streaming down your cheeks. Annoyances like this have led to bigger problems, like 59-percent of glaucoma patients not using their medicated eye drops despite the risk of going blind, Wired reports. To remedy this, ...

It's been just about a year since we saw the patent for Philips' remote control "pill," and it looks like the thing is finally a reality. For those of you straining to remember that far back, the iPill (as it is now sadly known) is a miniature capsule that among its many charms contains a microprocessor, power supply, medicine reservoir and pump, and a radio so that it can remain in contact with ...