{"id":165793,"date":"2023-06-15T00:31:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/remote-controlled-pill-camera-can-help-diagnose-digestive-issues"},"modified":"2023-06-15T00:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:31:52","slug":"remote-controlled-pill-camera-can-help-diagnose-digestive-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/remote-controlled-pill-camera-can-help-diagnose-digestive-issues","title":{"rendered":"Remote-Controlled Pill Camera Can Help Diagnose Digestive Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wS-OeX_3Ow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a pill-shaped, swallowable camera that can be controlled by physicians once ingested to help doctors diagnose digestive issues.<\/p>\n<p>Ingestible pill-shaped endoscopes are not a new idea. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2022\/02\/04\/this-swallowable-camera-can-take-the-place-of-traditional-colonoscopies\/\"><em>PetaPixel<\/em> reported on the Pillcam<\/a> which is just such a device, but it had limitations just like all other swallowable pill cameras: doctors can\u2019t control it once it is ingested.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional pill cameras are driven only by gravity and the natural movement of a subject\u2019s body, which limits what doctors can actually see. That is poised to change as scientists from George Washington University have developed a first-of-its-kind system that allows physicians to remotely \u201cdrive\u201d a pill capsule through all the regions of the stomach to see and photograph potential problem areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a pill-shaped, swallowable camera that can be controlled by physicians once ingested to help doctors diagnose digestive issues. Ingestible pill-shaped endoscopes are not a new idea. Last year, PetaPixel reported on the Pillcam which is just such a device, but it had limitations just like all other swallowable pill cameras: doctors can\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}