Tag: Implantable device
Tiny Bluetooth-Driven Implant Deliver Drugs for Chronic Disease Management
Patients suffering from chronic diseases must follow complicated dosing regimens when taking their medications. People taking drugs for arthritis, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease find it difficult to keep track […]
University of Madison Researchers Develop Implantable Device to Fight Obesity
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a drug-free solution to fight obesity. They developed a tiny battery-free implant that’s only about a centimeter across, which stimulates the vagus […]
Weight Loss: Researchers Develop Implantable Device that Simulates Food Inside Stomach
At a time when 700 million adults and children worldwide are obese, and clinicians are fighting on the front lines of the obesity epidemic, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison […]
Wireless Implantable Devices Can Be Powered By Radio Frequency Waves
MIT scientists, working with researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new system to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Systems like this […]