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 ...

Fecal transplant is used to treat gut infections and is now being studied as a treatment for obesity, urinary tract infections, irritable bowel syndrome and more. By Richard Klasco, M.D. Q.

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 ...

Then the FDA announced what is perhaps the very first death from a fecal transplant—an immunocompromised patient died from an E. coli infection introduced by the procedure—and halted several ...

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 ...

Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A fecal transplant could help people whose type 1 diabetes has fouled up their digestive system. Swallowing a handful of capsules filled with donor feces ...