Most people think of stool as nothing more than bodily waste, something to be flushed away and forgotten. Yet in modern medicine, healthy human stool has become a powerful therapeutic tool capable of ...

A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood ...

The randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial included 46 patients who had three or more recurrences of CDI and had received a full course of vancomycin for their most recent acute episode.

Humans shed millions of these cells into the fecal stream every day. In the new study, the researchers found that the SRY gene responsible for the male-defining characteristics of Y chromosomes, along ...

BERLIN — Anaerobic preparation and careful donor selection could be key to realizing the full potential of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in ulcerative colitis (UC), according to results from ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday warned medical and scientific communities and other interested persons of the potential risk of transmitting multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs ...

Fecal transplants have been successfully used to treat gastrointestinal conditions. Researchers are currently studying whether they may also be used for weight loss and other metabolic issues. A fecal ...

In a novel study that identified male chromosome genetic material in the intestines of female patients undergoing fecal transplants, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have significantly ...