FMT restores gut microbiota balance by transferring stool from healthy donors, mainly for recurrent C. difficile infections. Recent data shows FMT's high efficacy in preventing recurrent C. difficile, ...

A fecal transplant, as it's often called, is exactly what it sounds like. One person's, um, poop is put into another person's body. It works, scientists theorize, by re-introducing good microbes into ...

A study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, examined the factors associated with first Clostridium difficile infection that predict the use of fecal microbiota transplantation for ...

The gut microbiome has been heralded as one of the most exciting areas of GI research. Fecal microbiota transplantation is perhaps one of the most promising products of this research. A recent study ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibiotics, ...

In the first comprehensive evidence-based guideline on the use of fecal microbiota-based therapies for gastrointestinal disease, the American Gastroenterological Association recommends fecal ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), also shows significant benefit in the treatment of primary CDI, ...

Symbiotic Healthcare, based in Manhattan, N.Y., has developed a capsule containing the processed fecal matter used in the C. difficile treatment fecal microbiota transplantation, according to a ...

Bethesda, MD (Feb. 21, 2024) — In the first comprehensive evidence-based guideline on the use of fecal microbiota-based therapies for gastrointestinal disease, the American Gastroenterological ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...