Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibiotics, ...
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 ...
Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...
A fecal transplant, as it's often called, is exactly what it sounds like. One person's, um, poop is put into another person's body. It works, scientists theorize, by re-introducing good microbes into ...
Minnie Hatch, 29, from Salt Lake City, had painful stomach cramps, and other symptoms for months before finding out she had Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. These bacteria can grow out of control ...
A new comparative study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that a new therapy for prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection may be less effective than traditional ...
The first ever pill that mimics the effects of fecal transplants was approved on April 26, 2023, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The treatment, called Vowst, is created with healthy ...
SAN DIEGO -- Administering fecal microbiota via colonoscopy instead of rectally prevented recurrence of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) for up to 2 months with no major safety signals, according to a ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing ...
The medicine offers a new, potentially life-saving option for a difficult-to-treat condition. “This is such a groundbreaking advancement in the field of medicine,” Sahil Khanna, MBBS, a ...
SEATTLE – Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a stealthy threat. It infects more than 500,000 people in the United States each year, and kills up to 30,000. It is a leading cause of ...
Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...