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 ...

A gastroscopy is a procedure that, in simple terms, involves sticking a long, flexible tube down a patient’s throat to inspect the oesophagus and adjacent structures with a camera fitted to the tip.

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 ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Images of the movie ``Fantastic Voyage'' float to mind when doctors speak about a new technology that's a camera in a pill, a pill that slides down a patient's throat like an ...

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.

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 ...