POO transplants could rejuvenate the ovaries to boost fertility, researchers say. The treatment – which involves placing a ...

For people not responding to a type of cancer treatment, a faecal transplant from someone who had success with the drug could boost their odds. Altering the gut microbiome has knock-on effects on the ...

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

On Jan. 15, 2026, Michael Hanaway, M.D., surgical director of the Kidney Transplant Program at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Muhammad Rabbani, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of ...

A man in Massachusetts whose gut started brewing its own alcohol, which made him heavily intoxicated, has finally recovered after swallowing multiple doses of bacteria from a healthy person’s faeces.

Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials. By Rylee Kirk A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another ...

Healthy human stool is emerging as a vital medical resource, treating severe infections resistant to antibiotics. Faecal Microbiota Transplantation, using donor stool, effectively restores gut health ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. You walk into a room in the intensive care unit and find a man in his ...

A once-daily pill for ulcerative colitis has delivered strong results in a clinical trial, easing symptoms even in patients for whom other treatments had failed and raising hopes for a safer, more ...