fecal transplant

The new treatment provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help patients.

Matthew Gable held on for 10 weeks after his mom’s water broke at less than halfway through the pregnancy.Without amniotic fluid, his lungs didn’t fully…

Fecal transplants are getting a lot of love from researchers.To start, a fecal microbiome transplant – also known as a stool transplant – really has very…

When an especially nasty intestinal bug threatened 86-year-old Billie Iverson, an unusual transplant saved her. The medical solution, still experimental, was to replace her dangerous digestive bacteria with a healthier mix of microbes.

Talk about alternative treatments.Fecal transplants, still considered experimental, are being tried at a dozen hospitals around the country for stubborn…