Pill With Camera Inside Used in Hostpital
 

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A camera encased in a pill is giving doctors at Arkansas Children's Hospital a look at their young patients' entire digestive tracts ? about 90 percent of which had gone unseen before.

The Given Imaging M2A Capsule, developed in the United States by an Israeli missile specialist in the mid-1990s, was given to the first two Children's Hospital patients Thursday. It is equipped with flash bulbs and takes 50,000 pictures over the course of eight hours, or the amount of time it takes the pill to work its way through the gastrointestinal tract.

Children's is one of about 1,700 hospitals worldwide using the pills, according to a representative for Given Imaging, the company that manufactures and distributes the pills. The hospital is also one of nine pediatric hospitals to begin using the pills since the Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) approved them for pediatric use last fall.




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