An Italian study published in Nature Medicine provides compelling evidence that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can ...

Joseph Brasco, MD, spent a year and a half convincing the board of directors of the Huntsville (Ala.) Center for Colon and Digestive Disease to allow him to perform fecal microbiota transplant in the ...

Fecal microbiota transplant, or FMT, is a procedure in which stool from healthy donors is transplanted via colonoscopy into the bowels of people with dangerous and recurrent infections caused by a ...

There's no scientific evidence that the gut microbiome causes autism, a group of scientists argue in an opinion paper published in Neuron. They point to the fact that ...

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 ...

An e-book coordinated by a WCM-Q researcher which compiles the latest research into the use of fecal transplants to restore ...

(a) Potential mechanisms by which a disturbed gut microbiome contributes to cancer pathogenesis. (b) Proposed mechanisms by which FMT restores the gut microbiome and reestablishes microecosystem ...

It isn’t often that a new medical procedure has a high success rate with very few side effects, but that’s the case for a newly available treatment for the potentially deadly condition, Clostridium ...

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 ...

Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of someone else’s stool. Instead of targeting the patient’s organs or immune ...

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 ...