type of patch

Yes the article is wrong- OBJs patch is a flexible plastic -like layered magnetic field- it does not have to be in direct contact with the skin to have an effect increasing drug absorption. It certainly DOES NOT mechanically to anything to the top layer --instead the patch produces temporary chanels Dr Benson believes to allow the drug to penetrate. She is giving a paper on the subject at a conference Perspectiuves in Percutaneous Penetration in France in April