‘Smart pill’ technology raises legal and ethical questions

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 The idea of putting little machines into the human body makes some uncomfortable.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass swallows a computer chip every morning. It’s embedded in one of her pills and roughly the size of a grain of sand. When it hits her stomach, it transmits a signal to her tablet computer indicating that she has successfully taken her heart and thyroid medications.

 

 

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