New research shows fecal transplants are effective treatment for C. difficile and irritable bowel disease, according to findings (pdf) presented at the annual meeting of the American College of ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, April 9, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Prompt treatment with a fecal transplant can improve survival odds of people with a life-threatening C. difficile ...

A single fecal transplantation is not more effective than the existing standard of care — administration of oral vancomycin taper — for treating patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection ...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence Yes, fecal transplants are a thing. And they are just as cringeworthy as you might imagine. But to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim Story, a high school football coach and teacher in Hattiesburg, Miss., was diagnosed with cancer in 2022. (Annie Flanagan for ...

(Reuters) -Nestle Health Science will buy the rights to Seres Therapeutics' Vowst, the companies said on Thursday, gaining access to the first ever pill alternative to fecal transplants for a deadly ...

A study in Clinical Infectious Diseases investigated whether fecal transplantation is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. The researchers — led by Susy S. Hota, MD, ...

A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

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 ...

A non-randomized clinical trial examining the safety and acceptability of fecal microbiota transplantation in long-term acute care hospital patients revealed that the intervention is safe and ...

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 ...