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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a tiny camera patients can swallow to yield a living-color tour of the stomach and bowel. The medical diagnostic technology is a camera-in-a-capsule ...

Doctors at Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City announced Tuesday they have begun using a pill-sized camera for state-of-the-art endoscopy, a procedure described as a medical first for Siouxland . Known ...

In a recent study published in Science Robotics, a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robotic drug capsule, which they dub “RoboCap”, designed ...

When Are Endoscopies Preferred To Capsule Endoscopies? Gastroenterologists routinely perform an endoscopy or colonoscopy to visualize the digestive tract, including the small intestine, and the large ...

A tiny capsule with 4 cameras is revolutionizing veterinary technology, and helped a sick Arlington dog. "Sparky" Sorensen started vomiting a month ago. First, his owners took him to an emergency ...

I think it’s really cool when a clear pill has teeny tiny balls of medication inside it. I asked my friend Damianne Brand-Eubanks what happens after you swallow one of those capsules. She teaches in ...