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  2. Endoscopy - Wikipedia

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    Endoscopy may be used to investigate symptoms in the digestive system including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, difficulty swallowing, and gastrointestinal bleeding. [6] It is also used in diagnosis, most commonly by performing a biopsy to check for conditions such as anemia , bleeding, inflammation , and cancers of the digestive system . [ 6 ]

  3. Philipp Bozzini - Wikipedia

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    Philipp Bozzini was born on May 25, 1773, in Mainz, Germany. His father, Nicolaus Maria Bozzini de Bozza, came from a well-to-do Italian family that had to escape from Italy in approximately 1760 as the result of a duel.

  4. Gavriel Iddan - Wikipedia

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    Gavriel Iddan is an Israeli electro-optical engineer and the inventor of wireless capsule endoscopy.Initially at RAFAEL Armament Development Authority working on guided missile technology, Iddan got the idea for an endoscopic capsule while on sabbatical in Boston from a neighbour of his, an Israeli gastroenterologist suffering from undiagnosed stomach pain.

  5. George Dickinson Hadley - Wikipedia

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    George Dickinson Hadley, known as "Dicken" at home, was born on 30 June 1908, the son of Laurence Hadley, editor of the Birmingham Post. [1] He was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and then at Clare College, Cambridge, from where he earned a first class honours degree in natural sciences.

  6. Gastroenterology - Wikipedia

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    American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) [30] - was founded in 1941 and now includes around 15,000 members worldwide. Their mission statement reads "The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is the global leader in advancing digestive care through education, advocacy and promotion of excellence and innovation in endoscopy."

  7. Endoscope - Wikipedia

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    A Storz endoscopy unit used for laryngoscopy exams of the vocal folds and the glottis Basil Hirschowitz , Larry Curtiss, and Wilbur Peters invented the first fiber optic endoscope in 1957. [ 18 ] Earlier in the 1950s Harold Hopkins had designed a "fibroscope" consisting of a bundle of flexible glass fibres able to coherently transmit an image.

  8. James Van Der Beek's Private Battle With Cancer: What to Know

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    James Van Der Beek stole hearts worldwide as the titular Dawson Leery in Dawson’s Creek.Now the actor is showing a different side of himself in The Real Full Monty, a FOX special featuring male ...

  9. Barry Marshall - Wikipedia

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    On days 5–8, he developed achlorhydric (no acid) vomiting. On day eight, he had a repeat endoscopy, which showed massive inflammation (gastritis), and a biopsy from which H. pylori was cultured, showing it had colonised his stomach. On the fourteenth day after ingestion, a third endoscopy was done, and Marshall began to take antibiotics. [17]