U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections—an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.
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A new study, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and led by an Upstate Medical University professor, has found that compared with standard antibiotic treatment, stool transplantation can increase the ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Autism Spectrum Disorder currently affects 1 in 44 children in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For reasons that remain murky, these numbers appear to be trending upward as researchers ...
Dec 14, 2022
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first fecal microbiota treatment, aimed at helping adults battling tough-to-treat Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections.
Dec 1, 2022
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You just meant to have a single Oreo as a snack, but then you find yourself going back for another, and another, and before you know it, you have finished off the entire package even though you were not all that hungry to ...
Nov 30, 2022
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A fecal microbial transplant—giving a recipient fecal matter from a donor to change the recipient's gut microbial community in the colon—has been a successful last resort therapy for people with recurrent Clostridium difficile ...
Nov 4, 2022
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From incurable intestinal infections to metabolic syndrome, from melanoma to chronic inflammatory bowel disease to Tourette's syndrome: Many diseases can potentially be cured by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT), and ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Fecal transplant treatments could infect patients with monkeypox, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned.
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