Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is being increasingly used to investigate small bowel pathology. It is the gold standard for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and iron deficiency anemia. VCE has ...

The small bowel is an area we really can't see, because they can do an upper endoscopy and look at your ... so they swallow this little camera that goes down and takes little pictures that can ...

"The camera in a capsule might allow people to ... If the ColoCap study is successful, the colon capsule endoscopy could rapidly increase the capacity for diagnosing bowel cancer and other bowel ...

A bowel screening procedure featuring a tiny camera inside a pill has been used on its 2,000th Scottish patient. Jacqueline Gribbon said she "didn't feel anything at all" after swallowing the tablet.

it is now possible to make a camera pill for patients to swallow. Adarsh Sandhu spoke to Olympus Medical Systems about their latest developments in endoscopy. In medicine, endoscopes are inserted ...

Science has boldly gone where no man has gone before - sending a tiny, pill-sized camera travelling through ... examinations such as the traditional endoscopy which involves inserting a bundle ...

A new procedure using tiny cameras inside a pill to help detect bowel cancer is to be tested in North Yorkshire. Health bosses said the ColoCap study would see up to 1,000 patients swallow the ...

“The traditional way to look at intestines or the gut is to have an endoscopy – it’s a camera attached to a tube that will hopefully see any visible obstructions or problems. “In Scotland, capsule ...

IDA is one of the most common presentations of obscure GI bleeding and it has several causes, which may be difficult to diagnose by conventional endoscopy ... may lead to capsule retention.