COLON-PROBING PILL CAMERA FINALLY WINS FDA APPROVAL

Daily Tech - Ingestible capsule cameras have been around for a little over a decade now.  But while these probes have been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for inspection of a wide range of other parts of the digestive track -- including the esophagus, stomach, and small intestine -- they still weren't technically authorized to image the large intestine until this week.   Tireless development and a reasonable compromise have at last opened up that gaping hole in the capsule cam's resume, with the approval of Given Imaging Ltd.'s (GIVN) capsule camera technology for imaging the large intestine.  The approval had its limitations... >>>