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Personalised drug delivery wearable invented

11-May-2017

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The way each person processes medication is unique.

Difficult to prescribe and administer the correct level of life-saving drugs to maintain the right level of the medicine in the patients’ bloodstream.

Engineers at Stanford University have invented a tool which automatically monitors and administers patients’ medication.

Hope to miniaturise the components into a device which could be implanted or worn by the patient.

The study was published in the Nature Biomedical Engineering journal.

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Hyongsok Tom Soh

Professor of Radiology (Early Detection), of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering and of Bioengineering at Stanford University.

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Scientific journal covering research of human disease, or its prevention, diagnosis and treatment

Stanford University

Private research university, one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions

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Precision Medicine