A Brave New World: Humans Enter Exciting, Scary New Era Of Medicine

• Humans enter exciting, scary new era of medicine

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In this week’s edition of AMERICAN FREE PRESS, we are featuring an in-depth look at what we are calling a Brave New World of medicine. It’s an incredible time where the latest technological advances in the field of healthcare are giving Americans control over their own health by taking us to places only once imagined in the pages of science-fiction novels.

For example, David F. Williams, Ph.D., a professor of regenerative medicine at Wake Forest University, is convinced that some time in the near future humans will be capable of regrowing fingers and lungs, while also regenerating diseased kidneys. In this same field of study, “tricorder” devices will—from a distance—scan, record and analyze the body’s vital statistics before rendering a diagnosis. Such things as biopsies, endoscopies and invasive exploratory surgeries will be relegated to the annals of history.

When it comes to medicine, pills will soon contain microchips that are easily ingested. On July 30, Amy Maxmen, a blogger on Nature.com, described this latest advance in digital medicine: “A sand-particle sized sensor consists of a minute silicon chip containing trace amounts of magnesium and copper. When swallowed, it generates a slight voltage in response to digestive juices, which conveys a signal to the surface of a person’s skin where a patch then relays the information to a mobile phone belonging to a healthcare-provider.”

AT&T helped develop Vitality Glow Cap that lights up, emits a ring tone and sends messages to a patient’s cell phone when they’re supposed to take their medicine. And, even more futuristic, nanotechnology is currently being researched that allows devices to be implanted within a person that, when wirelessly turned on, inject drugs into the body at predetermined intervals. In this sense, a brighter future awaits diabetics, who will no longer have to take daily injections. Dexcom is promoting a high-tech sensor that, when implanted through the skin, monitors glucose levels and then forwards the results to the patient.

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