(Reuters) -Nestle Health Science will buy the rights to Seres Therapeutics' Vowst, the companies said on Thursday, gaining access to the first ever pill alternative to fecal transplants for a deadly ...

Fecal microbiota transplants may enhance patients’ response to immunotherapy, but experts caution that the latest data remain proof-of-concept and far from practice-changing.

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 ...

A Mississippi high school football coach has finally reached the end zone of his cancer fight thanks to a peculiar, experimental treatment. Tim Story was diagnosed at 49 with stage 3 small bowel ...

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 ...

A meta-analysis of randomized trials suggests fecal microbiota transplantation can ease depressive symptoms, with stronger effects reported for endoscopic or enema delivery, according to researchers ...

When we dreamt of a magic pill that could cure anything, we weren’t thinking of poo pills — also known as “crapsules.” But these little capsules packed with freeze-dried fecal matter have recently ...

There was improvement in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Impact Scale score, from 108 to 140 with fecal microbiota transplant and from 77 to 92 with placebo. HealthDay News — For patients with type 1 ...

A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood ...

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), can dramatically improve cancer treatment, suggest two groundbreaking studies published in the prestigious Nature Medicine journal. The first study shows that the ...

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 ...

Tim Story's advanced small bowel cancer was considered terminal -- until an experimental trial involving fecal transplants and immunotherapy cured him. A Mississippi high school football coach has ...