The latest craze among sky’s-the-limit antisocial teens? Washing down handfuls of Given Imaging’s new human-consumable camera capsule with dangerous amounts of malt liquor. And freebasing sodium ...

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 ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Israel's Given Imaging Ltd , which makes a miniscule diagnostic video camera swallowed by patients, is about to feel the full blast of competition. Sign up here. Yet ...

What if we could peer inside the human body wirelessly without having to resort to endoscopy, a procedure that requires anesthedia and careful technique to minimize complications? Thanks to a startup ...

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.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Doctors have used small cameras on snaking tubes for years to check patients' intestinal troubles. These days, they're asking some patients to swallow the entire camera. Gulp. With ...

Edward Artnak, MD, a gastroenterologist at Shannon Clinic in San Angelo, Texas, is featured in a report by the San Angelo Standard-Times for his use of capsule endoscopy. The story focuses on use of ...

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 ...

Discover the groundbreaking capsule endoscopy—a tiny, wireless camera encased in a transparent pill-sized capsule. This advanced medical device offers a non-invasive way to examine the small intestine ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A pill-sized camera that can be swallowed and can explore parts of the small intestine that other diagnostic techniques miss allows for better detection of inflammatory bowel ...