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 ...

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.

What if you could swallow a tiny robot that could diagnose, monitor and treat health issues in your gut without scheduling an uncomfortable or time-consuming outpatient procedure? Researchers at the ...

Ingestible electronics can sense and act inside the gut ...

Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a pill-sized camera to check the midsection of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract for any abnormalities. An endoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure in which ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cameras-in-a-pill can capture views deep within the small intestine, but the doctors who read the results may often fail to spot abnormalities, a small study suggests.