The news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted its 14-year ban on the use of silicone implants for breast augmentation and reconstructive surgery raises an interesting question: ...

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the ...

The implantation of a medical device in the body is often just the beginning of the story. Once a device is firmly implanted, the ability to trace and identify it can often be as important as the ...

Wisconsin this week will become one of the first states to ban the forcible implantation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into humans. The ban begins on Wednesday, when legislation signed ...

To date, most of the attention given to RFID implants has focused on blood glucose monitoring. Now, a non-profit serving dialysis patients is looking at ways to use implants as well. Working with ...

This chap placed an RFID sensor in his hand (or had a doctor do it, rather) and plans on wiring up his house and car with sensors that will allow all sorts of wireless magic to happy when he waves it ...

Hi this summer i decided implant couple of rfid chips under my skin. Now I am bored.How can i detect and deactive these devices. Yeah.. you can say go hospital MRI or something detect these and help ...