Fecal transplants benefit from super donors

Monday, January 21, 2019 - 09:50 in Health & Medicine

Poop transplants have become routine treatment for nasty recurrent diarrheal infections, but trials for other conditions have hit a bum note. Now, the fecal faithful have re-examined the evidence. Time and again, they found one donor whose stool was substantially more likely to lead to clinical improvement than others in the same trial. These ‘super-donors’ […]

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