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 ...

MIT engineers have developed a pill that can wirelessly report when it’s been swallowed. Inside the capsule is 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.

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cameras-in-a-pill can capture views deep within the small intestine, but the doctors who read the results may often fail to spot abnormalities, a small study suggests.

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 ...