Thanks to new technology, a tiny capsule camera can examine your intestines while you get on with your work or walk your dog. Compared with the alternatives, patients experience virtually no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adrian Thiessen, an Ontario-based filmmaker and documentarian, was well aware of the irony of swallowing a tiny, pill-sized camera ...

Darrin Carlson's chronic anemia was a telltale sign he might have internal bleeding. Doctors gave him X-rays, a colonoscopy and an endoscopy to try to find the source of his abdominal bleeding -- all ...

As it turns out, the concept of capsule endoscopy has been relatively easy for physicians and patients alike to digest. In fact, the innovative pill camera technology, pioneered by Given Imaging in ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a tiny camera-in-a-capsule that patients can swallow to get a close-up view of small intestine. The camera when swallowed painlessly winds its ...

WASHINGTON -- Medicine has caught up to Hollywood: The government approved a tiny camera-in-a-capsule Wednesday that patients can swallow to give doctors a close-up view of their small intestine. The ...

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 ...

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 ...