Availability of drugs as implants could expand, thanks to MRI maps
(World News Science)

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - What if a drug you need every single day of your life could be implanted into your body so that you don`t have to remember to take a pill? Unfortunately, chances are the drug you take isn`t available in implantable form - even though drug implant technology has been around since the `60s. This is partly because it`s challenging to design an implant that would work for every type of drug. Purdue University researchers developed a new method that uses an MRI to noninvasively see how an implant design affects the amount of a drug released into the body. The method provides this information by tracking and quantifying how well a drug moves within an implant. The data would...