Dr Cowburn said the new chips could have important medical advantages by implanting a chip in the tops of medicine bottles to alert users of a possible overdose.

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Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News shows photos taken by villagers of discarded neon lighting tubes, batteries, medicine bottles and even dead chickens and dogs among the mosquito-infested rubbish site.

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In the suddenly opened case I saw six rows of identical dark-brown glass bottles, each a bit smaller than a bottle of cough medicine.

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Vitality, an American firm, has come up with a cap for pill bottles that telephones hapless patients if they fail to take their medicine on time.

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