Four things you need to know: 1. A team of researchers led by Michael Bretthauer, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, conducted the study at six Norwegian hospitals ...

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 ...

A single fecal transplantation is not more effective than the existing standard of care — administration of oral vancomycin taper — for treating patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection ...

Frozen fecal transplantation is effective at providing relief to Clostridium difficile (C. diff) patients, according to a new study co-authored by University of Guelph researchers. The study found ...

After tracking biosynthetic gene clusters in 86 adults for a year, researchers found that stable gene groups predict which donor microbes persist after fecal microbiota transplantation.

Q: I suffered with unrelenting diarrhea caused by a C. diff infection that was not fazed by powerful antibiotics. My insurance company spent thousands of dollars on my treatment, but still the ...

Fecal microbiota transplant was noninferior to vancomycin as the initial treatment for C. diff in a randomized, open-label trial. Transplant showed slightly higher cure rates without recurrence and ...

Scientists have identified why some gut microbes successfully stay in the gut after fecal transplants, while others are much more transient. The King's College London discovery could help make the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — There’s a new war raging in health care, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake and thousands of lives in the balance. The battle, pitting drug companies against doctors and ...

A Clostridium difficile infection occurs when the naturally occurring bacteria in the large intestine is destroyed, often after antibacterial treatment. A fecal transplant consists of transplanting ...

Dear Doctor: A colleague just returned from a long hospital stay, where he battled a C. diff infection. He had asked for a fecal transplant but was refused. Will these ever become the standard of care ...

Although fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has not yet received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more than 10,000 patients receive FMT in the United States each year to ...