"Look out, your medicine is watching you"~~Reuters

[WinkyDink]

Novartis AG plans to seek regulatory approval within 18 months for a pioneering tablet containing an embedded microchip, bringing the concept of "smart-pill" technology a step closer.....

The biotech start-up's ingestible chips are activated by stomach acid and send information to a small patch worn on the patient's skin, which can transmit data to a smartphone or send it over the Internet to a doctor.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A754720101108
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Privacy groups question RFID use in medicine tracking
The FDA says it won't trace which drugs consumer use
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/105432/Privacy_groups_question_RFID_use_in_medicine_tracking
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Sure, doctors can check if organs are failing (maybe), or that the dosage is being taken as prescribed.
But RFID chips in purchased merchandise "to track stock," RFID chips in student ID's or backpacks "to track student whereabouts for safety," RFID chips "to prevent Alzheimer's patients from getting lost or children from being kidnapped," now RFID chips in ingested medicine....

http://www.spychips.com/

[virgogal]

1. OMG,this gives me a big,fat headache, Frightening.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. There's a pill for that......

but may have a chip in it.