PILL CAMERA

The ingestible pill camera from Given Imaging is designed to help doctor spot polyps and other early signs of colon cancer.

U.S. regulators have cleared a bite size camera to help screen the large intestine of patients who have trouble with colonscopies. The food and drug administration cleared the device for patients who have had trouble with the cringe-inducing procedure which involves probing the colon using a tiny camera on four-foot long flexible tube. The pill camera introduced previously in 80 countries including Japan, Europe, and Latin America.