They’re taking the plunge. A small number of Canadian cancer patients are testing a pill that contains healthy bacteria from human poop to see if it can extend their lives. “Pancreatic cancer has a ...

Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections -- a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." ...

“Screened feces is an accessible form of microbial therapy that we can harness for medical treatments.” Bornbusch has collaborated on projects that used poop pills to deliver microbes to about a dozen ...

Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections -- a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." ...

Would you swallow frozen stool in a pill? What if you were infected by a stubborn strain of Clostridium difficile and suffering from diarrhea bad enough to send you to a hospital? Researchers are ...

As Focus has explained in the past, FDA has been grappling with how to regulate an emerging medical procedure known as fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for several years. The procedure involves ...

Pancreatic cancer is a devastating diagnosis, as it typically comes with one of the lower survival rates among all cancer types. Data reveals that on average, only about 13% of pancreatic cancer ...

The antibiotic-resistant bacteria C. difficile can be deadly. Fecal transplants often can cure infections but have a major ick factor. Capsules of... Fecal transplants can be life-saving for people ...

But don’t worry. While the pills are extracted from feces, they contain everything but the unpleasant stuff.more Yes, it’s true, researchers are actually developing a medication based on feces. And ...

A small number of Canadian cancer patients are testing a pill that contains healthy bacteria from human poop to see if it can extend their lives. They’re taking the plunge. A small number of Canadian ...

Recent research into the human microbiome is revealing how closely connected it is to our health. Similarly, scientists are exploring how the microbiome in wildlife species can aid conservation ...