{"id":498032,"date":"2010-04-01T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pill-informs-when-ingested\/14691\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:27:22","slug":"pill-tells-doctors-when-its-been-swallowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/498032","title":{"rendered":"Pill tells doctors when it&#8217;s been swallowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/notification-pill.jpg\" alt=\"Rizwan Bashirullah holds a pill capsule designed to signal when a patient has swallowed it...\"><\/p>\n<p>Patients forgetting, bungling or just plain refusing to take their medication is a big problem for health care professionals and patients alike. It can exacerbate medical problems, spurring hospitalizations or expensive medical procedures and undercut clinical trials of new drugs. 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