Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The documentary features a woman named Daniell Koepke who talks about how she has found relief from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) ...

University of Rennes researchers have discovered that transplanting gut microbiota from elite athletes into mice improves mouse insulin sensitivity and increases their muscle glycogen stores. Findings ...

Keeping a healthy mix of friendly microbes in the gut—known as eubiosis—is crucial for good health. When that delicate balance is thrown off—often by antibiotics, diet or illness—the result can be a ...

New research shows fecal transplants are effective treatment for C. difficile and irritable bowel disease, according to findings (pdf) presented at the annual meeting of the American College of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for Parkinson's disease (PD) is safe but does not offer clinically meaningful improvement in symptoms, results of a new, randomized placebo-controlled trial show ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday warned medical and scientific communities and other interested persons of the potential risk of transmitting multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs ...

A non-randomized clinical trial examining the safety and acceptability of fecal microbiota transplantation in long-term acute care hospital patients revealed that the intervention is safe and ...

Although fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has not yet received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more than 10,000 patients receive FMT in the United States each year to ...