Round-up of recent medical breakthroughs

If you or someone you love has to take a complicated regime of medicines, you might be pleased to learn that soon a microchip that tells the doctor if you've taken your pills.

Digestible sensors in pills activate a harmless electrical charge when the pill is digested by the stomach which charge is picked up on a sensing patch on the patient's stomach that records the time and date the pill is digested,  sends it off to a mobile phone which in turn sends it to a secure web page.    Just 1 mm wide, the silicon microchips can't be seen by patients and can be added to any standard drug during the manufacturing process. 

New research suggests that one speck of blood or tissue may be enough to diagnose cancer.

Researchers at Stanford University, California, have developed a machine that separates cancer-associated proteins by means of their electric charge, which varies according to modifications on the protein’s surface.

There may be a "good" fat tissue - brown fat -that fights obesity but the downside is  that it works only when you turn down the heat and shiver.

And the best news of all. Bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover by boosting the level of amines which clear the head.