Medical treatment is about to go wireless. New advances in microelectronics have enabled doctors to contemplate the day when they will be able to monitor and treat their patients with medical implants that use wi-fi, Bluetooth and other kinds of wireless technology.

The latest development in this area is a medical implant controlled by wireless commands to release drugs at regular intervals within the body of a patient. It has been successfully tested for the first time on women suffering from osteoporosis, the brittle-bone disease that requires regular drug injections.

Last month, in a separate development, scientists announced an edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient’s pill regime. Each ingestible sensor, smaller than a grain of sand, triggers the wireless transmission of medical information from a patient’s body to the mobile phone of a relative or heathcare worker.

via The Independent.