Discover the revolutionary small capsule-camera that has the potential to vastly improve your health. This innovative ...

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 ...

In the 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, a group of scientists ventures inside the body of an injured colleague to save him from a life-threatening blood clot. They get a front-row seat to the ...

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.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Doctors have used small cameras on snaking tubes for years to check patients' intestinal troubles. Now, doctors at the University of Iowa are asking some patients to swallow ...

Mike Nelsen just met a part of himself he'd never seen before: his small intestine. When an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD for short) and colonoscopy failed to locate the bleeding causing his anemia, ...

Able to provide physicians with an internal view of a patient's digestive path, Given Imaging Ltd.'s PillCam is an ingestible diagnostic tool that provides images of the small intestine without ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Medicine has caught up to Hollywood: The government approved a tiny camera-in-a-capsule Wednesday that patients can swallow to give doctors a close-up view of their small intestine.

Dr. Braden Kuo of Massachusetts General Hospital wanted to find out exactly what happens to food in the stoman and digestive tract. Not long ago, we couldn't see inside the body. But thanks to the ...

SEATTLE — Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also someday could take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before. Cameras the ...