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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Tech companies have developed many devices that work outside the body, such as cell phones, smart watches, tablets and hundreds of others. Inside the body, though? That's obviously trickier for ...

An unusual drug trial just kicked off in the UK. A group of 11,000 National Health Service patients across England who have experienced symptoms of bowel cancer are lining up to receive a special drug ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also someday could take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before. Cameras the ...