Printing Medication on skin?

Hate going to the doctor for shots to keep you healthy?

Don’t like taking pills either?

Those forms of administering medications are soon going to be a thing of the past with a little help from a well known and wide spread, technology used hundreds of thousands of times each day. The technology was developed at HP LAbs  skin patch uses microneedles that barely penetrate the skin.  The microneedles are spread across a patch which sticks to the skin and pumps out medication using Inkjet technology. The  microneedle skinskin chip patch has plans to also include timed medication release aimed at those who need help taking their medication or are forgetful. The microneedle patch will  hold multiple types of medications and could release them in concert or at different timed intervals much like the different colors shot out of the inject nozzles. This is some pretty cool tech gear.

Crospon (makers of medical devices based in Ireland ) is on the forefront of marketing the technology to diabetics to ease the regular injections of insulin.

Vice president of intellectual-property licensing at HP stated,  “By licensing  core intellectual property in thermal inkjet technology for uses in a drug-delivery product, HP breathes new life into its mature technology while capitalizing on the booming health-care and life-sciences market.

The miconeedle-inkjet-patch is expected to hit mainstream pharmaceutical markets in the next 2 to 4 years.

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