The winners of The Wall Street Journal's 2004 Technology Innovation
Awards competition have been announced. Innovators world-wide were
considered.

The Gold award went to Sun Microsystems Inc of California for a
wireless approach to chip design.

The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel for
'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.

The Bronze award went to InSightec Image Guided Treatment Ltd. of
Tirat Carmel, Israel for 'ExAblate 2000', a nonsurgical way to destroy tumors by focusing ultrasound waves on them.

This is a wonderful achievement for Israel. From a world-wide search, Israel took two of the top three places. An outstanding acievement in light of the current political situation the country has been facing.

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Originally posted by dj_ilan_yosef The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel for 'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.

thats awesome!

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Originally posted by dj_ilan_yosef The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel for 'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.

This looks awsome and a hole lot simpler than a colonoscopy, though this will not replace one anytime soon as long as you can't directly control it and it does not take biopsies. They say it has an improved resolution over a SBFT and if it replaces a "barium swallow" xray then this is a winner in my book; a small bowel follow through is worse than a colonoscopy IMO.

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