August 9, 2008 New 'pill cam' brings more comfort, better cancer detection Play video

(NECN/ABC) - Today, patients in need of a 'pill cam' used by doctors to discover what's happening inside the body must be sedated because of it's large size.

But University of Washington mechanical engineer Eric Seibel shows us a smaller 'pill cam' that he says feels more like a piece of cooked spaghetti in your throat, than the more uncomfortable camera used in the past.

For more on Seibel's research, click here.

ABC's Brad Kloza has the story.