When Joe DeMayo’s donated kidney started to fail earlier than expected, he didn’t know that the drug he was taking could’ve ...

Keeping a healthy mix of friendly microbes in the gut—known as eubiosis—is crucial for good health. When that delicate ...

Anorexia is a life-threatening eating disorder — normally treated with talk therapy, but that only works for about half of ...

Currently, C. difficile is first treated with antibiotics like vancomycin, against which the bacteria has not developed a ...

Faecal transplants have been used to treat a wide array of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson's ...

A new comparative study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that a new therapy for prevention of recurrent ...

Fecal microbial transplants, or FMTs, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration only for treating repeated infections with Clostridium difficile, an opportunistic bacterium that often causes ...

Researchers are testing to see if “crapsules” can uproot antibiotic‐resistant bacteria hiding in patients’ guts.

New research warns that fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) can lead to long-lasting mismatches in gut regions, causing metabolic and behavioral shifts.

New research from the University of Chicago cautions against the widespread use of fecal microbiota transplants due to the ...

Future studies will investigate long-term implications of FMT on host metabolism and immune function, and effects on brain and other organ systems.

They are hailed as a promising method to restore gut microbiomes, but a study suggests fecal transplants may bring unintended health risks.