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 ...

What Is a Fecal Transplant? A fecal transplant is a procedure that places the stool of a healthy person into the colon of someone who’s ill. Your doctor may call it bacteriotherapy. A fecal ...

I’ve heard fecal microbiota transplants can cure my gut health issues. What’s the latest science say? The “ick” factor of getting a poop transplant doesn’t faze many of my patients who ...

A fecal transplant, also known as fecal bacteriotherapy or fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), is the process of restoring the bacteria commonly found in the digestive tract with an infusion of ...

A new study used fecal transplants from a healthy donor on 20 skin cancer patients. 65% of patients responded to the combination of a transplant and immunotherapy. Researchers are already ...

[Related: FDA approves first fecal transplant pill] Once a patient is infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, “there’s not really a way to get rid of colonization,” says Michael ...

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 ...

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) have been touted as a potential treatment for a variety of conditions, from inflammatory bowel diseases, obesity ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers are looking at a capsule as an alternative to surgery for fecal transplants. Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images New research into fecal transplants may ...

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is safe but does not offer clinically meaningful improvements for Parkinson disease (PD), according to a study ...