"Smart" pill to make you dumb as fuck, while texting big bro if you dont take your meds

08/16/2010

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Smart pill texts - time for your medicine
Volunteers are being recruited to take standard versions of their heart pill fitted with a microchip.

When swallowed, the chip send signals to a patch attached to the patient's shoulder.

The patch can also send a text if the patient forgets to take the medication.

The system, known as Raisin, also monitors heart activity and how well the patient is sleeping all of which may signal a deteriorating condition.

It costs a few cents per pill and was initially tested in the US, where it lifted patients' consistency in taking their medication from 30 per cent to 80 per cent.

If successful, the four-month test could lead to a year-long trial by Britain's health service.

Nicholas Peters, professor of cardiology at Imperial College Healthcare, said the main aim was to get heart patients to stick to taking their pills.

"It will encourage patients to take responsibility for their own health," he said.

With a stricter medication regimen, it is hoped their health will improve and they will be less likely to be admitted to hospital in an emergency.

The chips, developed by California-based company Proteus Biomedical, are tiny, digestible sensors made from food ingredients.

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VeriChip shares after H1N1 patent license win

09/21/2009

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Reuters
Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:21pm EDT 

Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.

The patents, held by VeriChip partner Receptors LLC, relate to biosensors that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, VeriChip said in a statement.

The technology will combine with VeriChip's implantable radio frequency identification devices to develop virus triage detection systems.

The triage system will provide multiple levels of identification -- the first will identify the agent as virus or non-virus, the second level will classify the virus and alert the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses and the third level will identify the precise pathogen, VeriChip said in a white paper published May 7, 2009.

Shares of VeriChip were up 186 percent at $3.28 Monday late afternoon trade on Nasdaq. They had touched a year high of $3.43 earlier in the session.

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Health News January 2009

04/18/2009

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Reverse the trend: Boning your way to freedumb

Tired of letting those unnecessary calories you accumulated through overeating to weather your lifelong depression in the developed world go to waste? Would you like to waste this excess energy to gratify yourself even more? Well corporate media has a solution for you! Distract yourself from the fact that you are getting screwed by people youll never see, by screwing the closest person to you! A new study has shown that an hour long romp can burn as much as 300 calories and have positive effects on our physiology. So eat more, have more sex, but whatever you don't think! And whatever you do, don't stop overeating!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4703166.stm?lss

A meal to die for

ZZZ- mailing

First case of ZZZ-mailing is noted as a woman has been found by University of Toledo researchers to be emailing friends while asleep, inviting them over for coffee and what not. In contrast to other forms of sleep walking and acting this is thought to symbolize just how hardwired the activity of using a computer and email is as it requires finer motor movements and procedures (as author checks in to facebook for 28th time in one day).

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Health News December 2008

04/18/2009

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By their 20s, young people will have spent 30,000 hrs on a CPU or in front of a television, which is now thought to be actually re-wiring their brains, paving the way for a new cerebral devolution.


Author of this study concludes that this generation is somehow smarter because they have access to so much fake information… With the exception of things such as Britney Spears, Chris Rocker, Nickleback, internet Rick-rolling, George W. Bush and 99% of the population, this would appear to be true.


8) American tobacco companies have a-greed to pay 200 billion over 20 years to numerous state governments in order to supplement the medical costs of smoking and anti-smoking campaigns… However many of these states have borrowed money on the basis of these future agreements, thus making them dependent on continued cigarette sales. Now these states (like a large majority of the health sector) are dependent on people being treatment ready slaves to man made diseases like smoking.


9) The supreme court may pass a ruling that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous (or even deadly) effects that arise from using their drugs; if those drugs have been approved by the FDA. Drug companies insist that anything less would cause hardship to their high profit margins (highest of any industry on the planet), the FDA depopulation agenda, and may discourage patients from taking their medications to cure the illnesses they helped to create.


10) Americans afflicted with ‘binge eating disorders’ said to be suffering in light of contrived economic crisis (SERIOUSLY!), dignifying the supposed stigmatized condition even more, big pharma touts many treatments for the fake condition, which clearly isn’t due to the social conditioning of a fast-food stuffing quick fix nation.


11) In Canada the supreme court has ruled that obese citizens are entitled to two airline seats for the price of one on any flights within Canada, indirectly discouraging these people from going to the gym and eating less in the time when they are not working or being distracted by mind numbing deceitfully termed ‘reality’ television.

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