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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A camera encased in a pill is giving doctors at Arkansas Children's Hospital a look at their young patients' entire digestive tracts — about 90 percent of which had gone unseen ...

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 ...

Mike Nelsen just met a part of himself he'd never seen before: his small intestine. When an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD for short) and colonoscopy failed to locate the bleeding causing his anemia, ...

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 ...

Harvard gastroenterologist Braden Kuo, MD, and artist Stefani Bardin collaborated on a project that used camera pills to look at differences in how the body digests a processed meal and a natural meal ...