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.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma — the most common form of pancreatic cancer — is among the deadliest cancers worldwide, with a five-year survival rate of only 8%, largely because it is diagnosed at ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional oral capsule delivery medications cannot pass through the mucus barrier of the GI tract, which is why large protein medications, insulins, and nucleic acids need to be infused in a ...