Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...

SAN DIEGO — Patients who undergo a "poop transplant" to treat severe diarrhea often see their symptoms get better within days, but their gut bacteria continue to undergo dramatic changes for at least ...

One patient died and four were hospitalized after receiving OpenBiome stool transplants as a treatment for Clostridium difficile, the FDA said in a March 12 safety alert. In total, six patients ...

A team of Mayo Clinic researchers has developed an innovative computational tool that analyzes the gut microbiome, a complex ecosystem of trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms ...

Turns out that fecal transplants are No. 2. It’s hard to imagine, but these transplants are really hot right now. Clinical trials have shown promising results for treating cancer, reversing the ...

When people think of medical transplants, those of the kidney, heart and lung often come to mind. It’s not surprising that mentioning a fecal microbiota transplant would elicit a puzzled response, but ...