In a world-first clinical trial published in the journal Nature Medicine, a multi-centre study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has found…
Fecal microbiota transplants are the most effective and affordable treatment for recurrent infections with Clostridioides difficile, an opportunistic bacterium and the most common cause of hospital-acquired intestinal infections. However,…
Fecal bacteria levels have skyrocketed 150 times beyond safe levels in some Florida canals after record flooding last week.Fort Lauderdale, just north of Miami, suffered massive flooding after 20 inches of rain left 20,000 without power and…
The regulatory body for medicine in Ontario says it had fecal matter hung on its front door, part of a rising tide of “threatening and hate-filled” abuse directed at its staff and members.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of…
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld a ban meant to prevent a Fraser Valley naturopath from manufacturing, advertising and selling pills and enemas made from human feces for use on autistic children.Jason Klop is the subject of an August…
A fecal microbial transplant -- giving a recipient fecal matter from a donor to change the recipient's gut microbial community in the colon -- has been a successful last resort therapy for people with recurrent Clostridium difficile…
Recently published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School found that Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) using capsules containing freeze-dried microbes taken orally has…
Changes in the way that humans live and eat have resulted in tremendous alterations in the gut microbiome, especially over the past few decades. These changes have been linked to increased rates of asthma, allergies, diseases of the…
Inflammatory bowel disease is accompanied by a number of changes in the intestines, such as a change in epithelial permeability, a change in the composition of the microorganisms, and altered levels of antimicrobial substances that are…