A "camera in a capsule" could revolutionize bowel imaging technology, replacing traditional colonoscopies in diagnosing bowel cancer. York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in ...

In the US, more than 7 million endoscopies are performed yearly. Capsule endoscopy using a ‘ pill cam ’, where a capsule containing a camera is swallowed and takes images of the digestive tract, is ...

Edward Artnak, MD, a gastroenterologist at Shannon Clinic in San Angelo, Texas, is featured in a report by the San Angelo Standard-Times for his use of capsule endoscopy. The story focuses on use of ...

A fantastic voyage through the body in a miniature vessel? You probably saw it in a science fiction movie. For patients with intestinal bleeding, it is a reality. Digital chips are so small that a ...

A team of researchers at George Washington University has developed an ingestible pill camera that can be “driven” around the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The device is the first of its kind to offer ...

PRINCETON, Ill. (AP) Rex Hunter of Princeton didn't quite know what to make of the flashing capsule his doctor told him to swallow. He was dealing with blood in his stool and had been through test ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although swallowing a pill camera can give doctors a good picture of the colon, it is not as good as traditional colonoscopy at detecting precancerous growths and cancer, ...

Ingestible video capsule endoscopes have been around for a while, but they’re severely limited and not controllable by physicians, relying entirely on gravity and the digestive system for movement.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The video camera-in-a-capsule has revolutionized bowel examinations, and now doctors in Greece have shown that advancing age does not compromise the success of the ...

Advanced it is today, medicine is still a long way from becoming the science that has eradicated illness and made humans live much, much longer. That probably won't happen during our lifetimes, so ...