Minding Your Microbiome: Your Body Is Teeming With Life
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Your microbiome is the collection of “good” bacteria and other microscopic organisms that helps your digestive system do its job…
Your microbiome is the collection of “good” bacteria and other microscopic organisms that helps your digestive system do its job…
Swallowing poop is ok. That's the conclusion of a recent study assessing the effectiveness of fecal microbiota transplants (FMT…
Could an exciting potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) be found in the gastrointestinal tract itself? That’s…
Some apparently rather useless Lactobacillus…
Some apparently rather useless Lactobacillus…
We can’t see them, but they are all around us. On us. In us. Our personal microbes have us outnumbered by orders of magnitude…
What if I told you that eating other people's poo could one day save your life? Now there's a meme
NEJM 6 November 2014 Vol…
Fecal transplants are effective in treatment of persistent clostridium difficile infections. The publication showing that, in…
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I remember all too well what it was like for my mother when she had Clostridium difficile infection. Post-surgery for colon…
New NICE guidelines for acute heart failure in adults
Fecal transplants are an effective way to combat C. difficile infections, but they're typically delivered by enema or a tube…
For the last several years the Canadian BioTechnologist has been bringing you news about advances in microbiome biology. Back…
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The healing powers of poop are now available in pill form — and a new study has found that just two days of the treatment can…
Clostridium difficile colitis, a type of infectious diarrhea, is so painful and debilitating that people often need to go to…
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Ilan Youngster, MD, MMSc Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General…
It’s still Monday so time for a very quick post about a paper just out in the Journal of the American Medical Association. I’ve…
“Frozen Poop Pills Fight Life-Threatening Infections” is the headline on this report by Nancy Shute, for NPR’s Shots blog…
Patients with recurrent gut infections may benefit from taking capsules filled with fecal matter from a healthy patient.
Fecal transplant pills help patients avoid invasive procedures while restoring healthy gut bacteria.; Credit: /Courtesy of the…
Frozen Poop Pills Fight Life-Threatening…
The antibiotic-resistant bacteria C. difficile can be deadly. Fecal transplants often can cure infections but have a major ick…