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 ...

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

In a breakthrough that can reshape the treatment of internal injuries, scientists have created a swallowable printer that can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways Diagnosing Crohn's disease can involve multiple tests, including ...

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 ...

I think it’s really cool when a clear pill has teeny tiny balls of medication inside it. I asked my friend Damianne Brand-Eubanks what happens after you swallow one of those capsules. She teaches in ...