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 ...

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 ...

Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...

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 ...

Findings from a small, proof-of-concept clinical trial have suggested that fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) can boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy in a range of gastrointestinal cancers.

When people think of medical transplants, those of the kidney, heart and lung often come to mind. It’s not surprising that mentioning a fecal microbiota transplant would elicit a puzzled response, but ...