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First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’
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A wearable sensor patch made by Proteus Digital Health is part of the Abilify digital pill study.CreditProteus Digital Health
By Pam Belluck

Nov. 13, 2017
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine.

The approval, announced late on Monday, marks a significant advance in the growing field of digital devices designed to monitor medicine-taking and to address the expensive, longstanding problem that millions of patients do not take drugs as prescribed.
This article is from the New York Times