A study of 25 obese patients who underwent endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota suggests that this procedure might provide a minimally invasive alternative to ...

Fujifilm Healthcare Americas—the result of last fall’s combination of Fujifilm Medical Systems and the recently acquired Hitachi Healthcare Americas—has its five-year plan set. The Massachusetts-based ...

OmniVision Technologies (OVT), a developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced from this week’s Medical Design & Manufacturing East (MD&ME) expo in New York City a collaboration ...

Here’s what you should know: 1. The DiLumen Ig is a flexible endoscopic tool which allows physicians to grasp and manipulate tissue within the digestive tract under direct endoscopic visualization. 2.

An endoscopy can help healthcare professionals diagnose stomach cancer. The test uses a camera to see the stomach and help with taking a biopsy of the tissue. An endoscopy is a minimally invasive ...

A multicenter clinical trial published in JAMA has found that a long-used endoscopic procedure does not prevent recurrent ...

‌Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that allows your doctor to look inside your gastrointestinal tract. It's a type of endoscopy done using a wireless camera that fits inside a tiny, disposable capsule.

Endoscopy is a broad term for a camera being inserted to look at a part of the body. Laryngoscopy is a subtype of endoscopy and can help treat issues in the larynx (or voice box). A laryngoscopy and ...

Certain types of endoscopies, like endoscopic ultrasounds, are commonly used to detect pancreatic cancer. But pancreatic cancer can be hard to spot in its early stages, even with imaging tests. In its ...

Endoscopy can be used along with other tests to confirm a diagnosis of cirrhosis and help a doctor decide what treatments might be best. An endoscopy is done by inserting a thin, lighted tube with a ...