Heck, it’s not just those tykes in Japan that are getting tracking devices. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64194,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 State to Shadow Parolees With GPS New career for the future: Tracking Specialist. Reminds me of those old cowboy movies where the Indian guide would jump down off his horse, look at the hoofprints in the dirt and say, “Um, two men pass this way three ...

This is interesting not just because it’s a promising new development in cancer treatment but because it was done using techniques that seem to be a modest advance in tools that might make drug design more cost effective.

Here’s an interesting skirmish in the global economics and politics of the drug industry. An organization that is deeply involved in funding HIV drug disbursement to developing countries is rattling the cage of the FDA. They’re putting pressure on to get the US FDA to approve a three-in-one pill for HIV treatment made by an Indian pharmaceutical company. The drugs ...

Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped – silicon.com The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school. The tags will be read by readers installed in ...