The premise of fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) is, admittedly, not the most pleasant. The process involves transferring donor stool (or derivatives thereof) to a recipient for a therapeutic purpose ...

Months after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would reverse its prior regulatory strategy on fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), the agency has released a new draft guidance ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found itself mired in - quite literally - a crappy situation. In February 2013, the agency announced that it would reach out to the public in an attempt ...

Fecal microbiota transplant has been used as the traditional treatment for C. diff. infection for a little over a decade. The procedure, which is done via colonoscopy, involves transplanting a small ...

TORONTO – The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to a company appearing to sell products containing human fecal matter without approval from the agency. In ...

The FDA warning relates to the risk of serious or life-threatening infections occurring due to the use of fecal microbiota for transplantation, linked to bacterial infections caused by multi-drug ...

In a recent research study, eleven recipients of a kidney transplant were filled with a big batch of foreign bacteria. Lucky for them, this extra dose of microbiota served to protect them from ...

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 ...

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 ...

TORONTO (CTV Network) — The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to a company appearing to sell products containing human fecal matter without approval from the ...