San Antonio Engineers Developing Tiny Implantable Drug Delivery Device

[TexasTowelie]

San Antonio engineers are working on a brand new way to deliver medications inside the body. An incredible innovation, the tiny implants could help save lives.

Cancer, H-I-V, diabetes. These potentially deadly diseases require daily medications. Biomedical and mechanical engineer Lyle Hood, Ph.D., is passionate about using engineering tools to improve the lives of patients.

"Having better solutions to cure these degenerative, wasting diseases where somebody is going to die but they’re not going to die well, is absolutely a central passion of mine," Hood said.

The University of Texas at San Antonio professor is hard at work with others in his lab developing a tiny capsule. The idea is to use the capsule to place medications precisely where they need to go in a non-invasive way. The drug delivery device can be placed precisely through a needle.

Read more: http://tpr.org/post/sa-engineers-developing-tiny-implantable-drug-delivery-device

[ghostsinthemachine]

1. This is a huge breakthrough

Instead of a port device. Also in regards to the opioid crises, they would provide a measured dose, no way to say "my back hurts, I'll take another painkiller". So addiction would be lessened by lack of açcess. The thing is the miniaturization of the drugs themselves.