Check On Pills
(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter) DENVER (Colorado). A new pill dispenser being used at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, enables doctors to check whether their patients are taking their medicine regularly. The dispenser contains a month’s supply of dated packets of pills. If the pills are removed re:gular!y each day. a strip of 'film fixed from top to bottom of the dispenser shows a serI les of even marks. But if the j patient misses a day or two and pulls out extra packets I to catch up with the date, the j strip shows a heavy mark folI lowed by blanks. ■ The dispenser, which is (very cheap, was invented by a doctor at the hospital, after it was found that one in five tuberculosis out-patients were not taking their pills on the right days.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31587, 26 January 1968, Page 2
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136Check On Pills Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31587, 26 January 1968, Page 2
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