Tim Story's advanced small bowel cancer was considered terminal -- until an experimental trial involving fecal transplants and immunotherapy cured him. A Mississippi high school football coach has ...

There was improvement in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Impact Scale score, from 108 to 140 with fecal microbiota transplant and from 77 to 92 with placebo. HealthDay News — For patients with type 1 ...

Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence Yes, fecal transplants are a thing. And they are just as cringeworthy as you might imagine. But to ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for Parkinson's disease (PD) is safe but does not offer clinically meaningful improvement in symptoms, results of a new, randomized placebo-controlled trial show ...

Tim Story, a high school football coach and teacher in Hattiesburg, Miss., was diagnosed with cancer in 2022. In the spring of 2022, Tim Story’s doctor told him that he likely had just months to live.

Fecal transplants have emerged as a potential treatment for a wide range of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, and even depression. These so-called poop transplants have ...

The practice of using fecal transplants to treat severe and sometimes fatal infections — including recurrent Clostridium difficile — is on the rise, but more research on the long-term effects of the ...

A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the cause of auto-brewery syndrome. Certain gut bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia ...

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, ...

By identifying the microbes and metabolic pathways responsible for a rare, gut-induced condition known as auto-brewery ...