WASHINGTON: Researchers at the University of Florida are designing a pill that confirms if patients have taken their medication. The boffins have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials. “It... 

Scientists say they have identified a potential treatment for sleeping sickness, a killer disease that infects about 60,000 people in Africa a year. British and Canadian experts say drugs could attack an enzyme the parasite causing the illness needs to survive. They say the orally-administered drug could be ready for human clinical trials in about 18 months. The disease, spread by the bite of a tsetse...