The rigid metal tubes that he was using allowed him to see only the light at the end of the tunnel; along with the tube, his patients had to swallow a source of light, whose dim bulb limited the murky ...

An interdisciplinary research team in Jena, Germany, has developed an innovative endoscope that can precisely ... provide only an after-the-fact view of the success of surgery.

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 ...