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Drugs on a coil free patients from the burden of taking pills for treating infectious diseases

  • Written by Malvika Verma, MIT Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Drugs on a coil free patients from the burden of taking pills for treating infectious diseasesA prototype of the pills-on-a-coil prototype that delivers medicine while it sits in the gut. Malvika Verma and Karan Vishwanath, CC BY-SA

One of the universal truths of health care is drugs don’t work if people don’t take them. But there are new devices in development that may help patients take their medications as required for up to...

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