Discover the groundbreaking capsule endoscopy—a tiny, wireless camera encased in a transparent pill-sized capsule. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

While ingestible video capsule endoscopes have been around for many years, the capsules have been limited by the fact that they could not be controlled by physicians. They moved passively, driven only ...

Orlando, Tuesday, May 20, 2003 -- Video capsule endoscopy is a novel technology that is designed primarily to image the small intestine. The current version of the capsule is called the M2A Plus ...

Video capsule endoscopy may be a cost-effective means to identify upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the emergency department if it reduces hospital admissions, according to a study in Annals of ...

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences has significantly improved the technology of ingestible video capsule endoscopes by making it possible to remotely operate these uncontrolled capsules, ...

PRINCETON, Ill. (AP) Rex Hunter of Princeton didn't quite know what to make of the flashing capsule his doctor told him to swallow. He was dealing with blood in his stool and had been through test ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The diagnostic yields of video capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy for indications without bleeding ...

VCE is one of the evolving techniques for the investigation of the small intestine that may not be accessible to conventional endoscopy techniques, such as EGD and colonoscopies. In cases of obscure ...