A Mississippi high school football coach has finally reached the end zone of his cancer fight thanks to a peculiar, experimental treatment. Tim Story was diagnosed at 49 with stage 3 small bowel ...

Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could ...

Fecal microbiota transplant was noninferior to vancomycin as the initial treatment for C. diff in a randomized, open-label trial. Transplant showed slightly higher cure rates without recurrence and ...

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 ...

Transferring feces from a healthy patient to a patient with an imbalanced population of bacteria is growing in popularity as a way to regulate gut health and fight off nasty infections like C.

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 ...

A review of studies on fecal transplants alleviating symptoms of depression has found the treatment works best when the packages of helpful microbes are delivered straight to our gut through our butts ...

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 ...

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 ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

Tim Story's advanced small bowel cancer was considered terminal -- until an experimental trial involving fecal transplants and immunotherapy cured him. A Mississippi high school football coach has ...