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Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments
Adults with kidney cancer who received faecal microbiota transplants on top of their existing drugs did better than those who ...
Of the 20 patients in the lung cancer group, 80 per cent responded positively to immunotherapy after receiving fecal ...
POO pills’ could dramatically improve cancer treatment, boosting effectiveness and reducing toxic side effects, scientists ...
SAN DIEGO — Patients who undergo a "poop transplant" to treat severe diarrhea often see their symptoms get better within days, but their gut bacteria continue to undergo dramatic changes for at least ...
One patient died and four were hospitalized after receiving OpenBiome stool transplants as a treatment for Clostridium difficile, the FDA said in a March 12 safety alert. In total, six patients ...
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Doctors shock world after curing rare gut disorder with bizarre transplant
Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of someone else’s stool. Instead of targeting the patient’s organs or immune ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Brasco, MD, spent a year and a half convincing the board of directors of the Huntsville (Ala.) Center for Colon and Digestive Disease to allow him to perform fecal microbiota transplant in the ...
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