The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning after a patient died following a fecal transplant procedure to treat C. difficile. Clostridium difficile is an infection of the intestines that ...

A procedure that was hailed for its revolutionary approach left one person dead and another severely ill last Spring. The doctors involved have now come forward to explain what happened. In an article ...

WASHINGTON — Fecal transplants, though experimental, have been lifesaving, reports the New York Times, citing the cases of some patients who were being ravaged by “uncontrollable diarrhea” caused by ...

A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases examined the durability and clinical outcomes of fecal microbiota transplantation as well as patient satisfaction. Researchers contacted 190 eligible ...

Bethesda, MD (Jan. 10, 2018) -- The first participant has enrolled in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) National Registry, which is planned to ...

U.S. researchers conducted a retrospective study involving 372 patients with C. diff, between the ages of 11 months and 23 years. The study participants underwent an FMT procedure at a pediatric ...

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 ...

"This is a cautionary tale about the risks of cutting edge projects," one doctor said of the patient's death A procedure that was hailed for its revolutionary approach left one person dead and another ...