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 ...

Thanks to new technology, a tiny capsule camera can examine your intestines while you get on with your work or walk your dog. Compared with the alternatives, patients experience virtually no ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...