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FDA approves medical information chip for implantation in humans.
Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY) Publication Date: 14-OCT-04 |
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COPYRIGHT 2004 Newsday
Byline: Lou Dolinar
Oct. 14--It's official: the Food and Drug Administration yesterday gave permission for humankind to get a digital upgrade -- receiving implantable electronic tags for computerized medical information.
Human patients can now join 1 million pets, many cattle herds and assorted wildlife that already carry these implantable chips, but there are questions about how useful such a system would be or whether the security precautions are stringent enough.
A comparative handful of people have gotten the chips on an experimental basis, but the FDA decision paves the way for widespread medical use, according to Applied Digital Solutions, the company that makes VeriChips and received approval for its...
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