Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has quietly become one of the most influential laboratories in modern gastroenterology, a place where ideas born at the bedside are increasingly shaping how digestive ...

Ingestible smart capsules deliver medication directly to specific gut locations using microscopic needles and targeted drug ...

Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System has submitted a CON application to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for a new ASC.  The gastroenterology and endoscopy ...

The endoscopy services at Lynn’s hospital have been accredited by the Royal College of Physicians after meeting best practice ...

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The Smart Pill Technology Market refers to the rapidly evolving sector that focuses on ingestible electronic devices designed to monitor, diagnose, and sometimes treat medical conditions from inside ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Current Biology 00004-7). The original story “ Researchers discover a ...

The new capsule robots developed for medical applications can reportedly be swallowed by patients and steered using magnetic fields. The team explained that such robots could reduce the current ...

The people and the land Two colleagues mourn the sudden death, at 38, of a high-tech leader who helped some of Israel’s cutting-edge startup founders begin their journeys, and sought to solve problems ...

Compulsive hair-pulling can be alarming but isn't dangerous. When the hair is swallowed, however, serious complications can occur. Here’s what parents should know about trichobezoars.

A capsule sponge test takes ten minutes to do and can be done by a nurse – said to make it much faster and less expensive than an endoscopy. The trial will find out if the capsule sponge test can ...

People on Wirral are being invited to join a 'ground-breaking' clinical trial ...