Wearing a patch over the empty socket, Sergeant Shannon told how he was discharged from a ward at Walter Reed and told to make his own way to an outpatient building while utterly disorientated.

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MicroChips' first trial will evaluate whether one implanted device, installed during a simple outpatient operation, can replace a year of daily injections of a generic version of Eli Lilly's bone-building osteoporosis drug Forteo, or parathyroid hormone.

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