Electromagnetic emissions from electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems, microwaves and other technologies have been shown to interfere with medical devices such as pacemakers. In an effort to ...

John Halamka, CIO at both CareGroup Inc. and Harvard Medical School, is testing radio frequency identification technology — on himself. An RFID chip that is the size of two grains of rice and encased ...

News reports linking implanted RFID transponders to tumors in lab mice are erroneous and misleading, according to Applied Digital Solutions, a manufacturer of implantable RFID tags, and two of its ...

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 Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor offers everything from RFID tags, meters and middleware software to testing facilities and design assistance. While many vendors provide RFID tags and readers for ...

Leading cancer specialists reviewed the research for The Associated Press and, while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said ...

Facepalm: A Missouri magician and molecular biologist found himself confronting the limits of modern biohacking after accidentally locking himself out of the technology implanted inside his own body.

Adding to the growing buzz surrounding radio frequency identification tagging technology, IBM Thursday officially opened its RFID Testing and Solution Center in La Gaude, France, while in a separate ...