What’s more appealing: getting a shot, or swallowing a pill full of needles? The lesser of those two evils may seem obvious, but a new invention may soon cause you to second-guess that preference.
28-year-old Carl Schoellhammer, a chemical engineering graduate student at MIT, doesn’t have a high opinion of shots. “They’re horrible, they’re painful, and nobody likes them,” he said over the phone. They also pose a major civic problem: medication non-adherence causes $100 billion in excess hospitalizations per year, and at least some of that can be attributed to drugs delivered via needle. “Many patients don’t do it,” he explains. “It could be laziness, it could be they feel better so they stop taking their medication, but certainly a dislike of needles is a big [factor].”
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