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Miniature wireless sensors presage smart phone medicine

Nature Biotechnology volume 30, pages 1013–1014 (2012)Cite this article

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Wireless medical devices are already in use but mostly as long-term surgical implants, like the defibrillators and pacemakers made by device manufacturers such as Natick, Massachusetts–based Boston Scientific or Fridley, Minnesota–based Medtronic. Other health sensors can be worn externally, for instance, those that transmit heart activity data or blood sugar levels. But these tend to be bulky and better described as 'portable' rather than 'wearable'.

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Eisenstein, M. Miniature wireless sensors presage smart phone medicine. Nat Biotechnol 30, 1013–1014 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1112-1013

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