pills
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Australia Provisionally Approves Two Oral COVID Treatments, So What Does This Mean?
Australia has secured 800,000 doses of COVID-19 antiviral pills. Here’s what we know so far about molnupiravir and nirmatrelvir + ritonavir.
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MIT Wants You To Swallow This Origami Robot Pill To Retrieve Other Crap You’ve Swallowed
According to MIT, Americans swallow over 3500 button-sized batteries every year. Say what? But instead of educating the public about not swallowing random crap, researchers at the school want people to swallow a new folding origami robot they have developed that’s designed to retrieve foreign objects, among other tasks.
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Would You Swallow A Pill Covered In Needles Instead Of Getting A Shot?
After the first shudder, it sounds even more terrifying: a pill coated with tiny needles that injects you from the inside of your intestine. But the scientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital who developed the capsule say that these swallowable microneedles could be a new (and painless!) way to deliver drugs. No more shots!
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Breakthrough Research Could Replace Insulin Shots With Pills
Whether you don’t like needles, or whether you really don’t like needles, there’s some good news on the horizon: a special “bioadhesive” coating that was just developed at Brown University is bringing us one step closer to saying goodbye to injections and hello to things like insulin pills.