Discover the groundbreaking capsule endoscopy—a tiny, wireless camera encased in a transparent pill-sized capsule. This ...
Doctors often use small cameras inside the body to help spot and treat diseases. The latest camera – slightly larger than a human hair – can fit inside the tiny bile duct near the small intestine.
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 ...
Employing technology that recalls the sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, local researchers have discovered that a popular painkiller causes more significant damage to the gastrointestinal tract than ...
Dr. Loyal Tillotson remembers seeing the 1960s sci-fi film "Fantastic Voyage," the story of five scientists who shrink themselves and enter the bloodstream of a patient to destroy a blood clot in his ...