U.S. health officials have approved the first pill that uses healthy bacteria from human waste to prevent dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants. The Food and Drug Administration approved the treatment Wednesd
Fecal Transplant Pill Targets C. Difficile InfectionWorcester, Sharon
A fecal microbial transplant (FMT) is not a particularly new medical concept. The idea can be traced back thousands of years in Chinese medicine, and arose in the West in the 1950s when a team of American surgeons began to experiment with the treatment. Over the last decade, however,intere...
Recently, researchers have used fecal transplantation to treat the disease, with good results, and have evidence that it iscost-effective. Although one team has tested the use of fecal material inpill form, increasing availability of the treatment remains an issue. Therefore, Ilan Youngster, MD, ...
U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections—an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants. The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-bas...
These days fecal transplantation is no joke. Fecal transplants are increasingly being used as the treatment of last resort for certain infections in the human gut and have had remarkable success treating the nursing home and hospital-acquired scourge, Cl
Would You Swallow a Pill Full of Poop?Katie M. Palmer
In principle, though, researchers could overcome these drawbacks by discovering the factors that make FMT work and finding ways to deliver just those factors to patients, conceivably even in pill form. In the study, the researchers analyzed samples from 20 ulcerative colitis patients, before and af...