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 ...

Tim Rubin, a gastroenterologist at Essentia Health in Duluth, Minn., will be featured on the nationally syndicated television show “The Doctors” next week for performing fecal transplants, according ...

After deciding in June 2013 to begin fast-tracking fecal transplant procedures by scrapping an earlier requirement that would have mandated an approved Investigational New Drug (IND) application, 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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have approved the first pharmaceutical-grade version of the so-called fecal transplant procedures that doctors have increasingly used against hard-to-treat intestinal ...

The practice of using fecal transplants to treat severe and sometimes fatal infections — including recurrent Clostridium difficile — is on the rise, but more research on the long-term effects of the ...

In the spring of 2022, Tim Story’s doctor told him that he likely had just months to live. Story, a high school football coach in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, had been diagnosed with Stage 3 small bowel ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

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 ...