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| UK to microchip prescription medicines with new smart pill Forget personal privacy - UK to microchip prescription medicines with new smart pill
(NaturalNews) Under the guise of helping people remember to take their medications as prescribed, a new microchip product called Helius, or the Raisin Personal Monitor, will be attached to pills in the UK by the end of 2012. The product is designed by Proteus Biomedical in California. Presumably, the powers that be don't believe that citizens of the UK have enough sense to take their medicines without being monitored. With the addition of the Helius "smart pill" to medicines, people will lose the right to make their own decisions about how their healthcare is managed. Where else will this "new" medical technology surface?
Proteus Biomedical has stated that individual rights to privacy will be protected; however, the information contained in the chip can be transferred over the internet via cell phone. The spin being put out is Helius will assist people in taking care of their health by remembering to take all their medicines, alleviating the fears of caregivers and distant family members who may not be able to provide day-to-day care for their loved ones. Swallowing the medicine laced with Helius activates a high-frequency signal throughout the individual's body that is detected by something on you or inside you, according to Proteus Biomedical rep. The person wears a small Bandaid-like monitor that records the signal from the medication, logging the time and what medicine was taken. The monitor, or health companion, can also measure vital signs at the same time such as heart rate, respiration, body posture, temperature and sleep patterns -- and who knows what else. The data is then allegedly encrypted and uploaded to the internet via the person's cell phone. Patients have the option of sharing their data with family members, doctors and others. How secure and private their data will be remains to be seen.
See: »www.naturalnews.com/034843_medic···ill.html | |
 JuggernautIrreverent or irrelevant?Premium
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kudos:1 | I can only hope that people rebel like hell, and that this fails miserably.
Where the hell is the UK Gov in all this? | |
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kudos:4 | reply to The Snowman
So, everyone in the UK has a cell phone? This sounds crazy. I don't have a cell phone and don't want one. Can I be forced (if this came to the USA) to have a cell phone? That is utterly stupid anyway because cell phones cause cancer and other health problems so doctors want folks to get cancer while they make sure they take their pills for some other health problem? Besides, it's detected by "something on you or inside you"....hmmm... the person is forced to have surgery to implant the monitor? Suddenly, patients no longer have any rights in the UK? They cannot refuse the surgery or refuse to wear the "bandaid like" monitor? They cannot refuse a free cell phone (those who are opposed to cell phones and don't already have one would have to be given a free one)? Even if the patient was forced to have a cell phone how could they be forced to keep its battery live? How could they be forced to use it to upload the information? This sounds utterly nuts ...like a lunatic raving.
The only way this could work would be on patients that are declared mentally incompetent and those are already under some kind of supervision. If this were implanted in all UK medicine then I guess we would see a reversal of the current situation: UK patients would start obtaining their medicine from USA online pharmacies that had untainted medicine...much like so many USA patients today obtain their medicine from Canadian online pharmacies.
A practical question: What happens when the patient (on the instruction of their doctor) routinely cuts the pill in half or even quarters and takes only a portion of the pill? Do they get a portion of the detection signal? It all sounds totally wacko.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson | |
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Perhaps UK gov are already there?
They have got politicians who are very animated about pushing through anything for a fee.
Marget Moran has to be one of the most despicable, she and others got caught covertly by channel 4, one said 'I'm like a cab for hire !'
»www.channel4.com/programmes/disp···pisode-1
On the same day the program asked to talk to Moran over her expenses fiddles, but was told she was too ill to talk.
She is supposed to go to court but she is pulling the too ill stunt again.
(a few have gone to jail over expenses)
Around half of the mps (app 300+) had to pay expenses back because they had made 'mistakes' even though, apparently Blair eased up the expenses rules they still managed to take too much. Some of the items claimed for - moat cleaning and a duck house !
The funniest one for me was the 700 quid 'mistake' the chancellor of the exchequer made !
There was a recent outcry over revolving door access to PM Cameron.
With actions like the above, I'm often thinking - 'UK gov, guilty of almost anything until proven innocent.' | |
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