Pill Makes Endoscopy Easy to Swallow

By MARIE GILBERT --Studying and treating disorders of the digestive system might not be the most glamorous job. But you’d never know it from talking with Dr. Fawaz Hakki, a gastroenterologist. These days, he’s feeling like a movie director. The feature presentation? It’s a full-color video of the tight, twisted tunnels of a patient’s small intestine. Welcome to real fantastic voyage, the story of a pill-sized camera that is making intestinal endoscopy easier to swallow.

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