The future of gut health monitoring has arrived, thanks to researchers at the California Institute of Technology. Caltech's new invention, PillTrek, is a wireless smart capsule for gut health ...

A dissolvable drug capsule uses radiofrequency signals to ensure that people are taking their medication on schedule ...

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 ...

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 team of researchers at George Washington University has developed an ingestible pill camera that can be “driven” around the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The device is the first of its kind to offer ...

UK researchers have successfully trialed a miniature video camera, small enough to be swallowed like a pill, to diagnose problems in the gut. In this week's New England Journal of Medicine the ...

PRINCETON, Ill. (AP) Rex Hunter of Princeton didn't quite know what to make of the flashing capsule his doctor told him to swallow. He was dealing with blood in his stool and had been through test ...