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BUT WILL SOCIALIZED MEDICINE PAY FOR THEM? Tiny implants for treating chronic pain. ?A tiny inject?

By Glenn Reynolds

BUT WILL SOCIALIZED MEDICINE PAY FOR THEM? Tiny implants for treating chronic pain. “A tiny injectable implant, smaller than a grain of rice, might one day take the place of large neural stimulators used to treat chronic pain and other neurological disorders. The novel device, under development by MicroTransponder, a Dallas-based startup, owes its small size to the use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology like that used to tag clothes to prevent shoplifting.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).