SAN DIEGO -- Administering fecal microbiota via colonoscopy instead of rectally prevented recurrence of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) for up to 2 months with no major safety signals, according to a ...

Canadian researchers conducted a clinical trial at three academic centers in Alberta, Canada. The trial included 116 adult patients with recurrent C. diff, enrolled between October 2014 and September ...

Human waste has long been thought of as just that: everything the body doesn’t want or need. But new research is showing that feces may contain valuable organisms that can actually treat disease. In a ...

Reproductive Health 'Two lives hang in the balance': Risky surgery in the womb saved baby from deadly disorder at just 25 weeks gestation Health Some gene therapies no longer require clinical trials, ...

C. difficile bacterium Oral capsule FMT and colonoscopy delivery showed similar patient outcomes, low rate differences, and high success rates. Oral capsule fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) was ...