A Canadian study is probing whether fecal transplants — a treatment that is growing in popularity but carries a strong gross-out factor — is effective enough to become a standard weapon against C. difficile.
In an experimental treatment that may be the only way they can save some people who have contracted a dangerous colon infection, some Minnesota doctors are transplanting donated human feces into their patients' colons.
When Suzanne Borowiak of Yorkville came to her first pulmonary rehab appointment at Edward Hospital in March 2009, her troubled breathing made walking across the room a challenge. The 46-year-old mother of two has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease marked b…
( Journal of Clinical Investigation ) This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, Dec. 10, 2012, in the JCI: Brown fat transplants help mice lose weight; Researcher…
Seattle Genetics, Inc. today summarized ADCETRIS data in relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma and other CD30-positive malignancies from multiple presentations at the 54th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition being held December 8-11, 2012 …
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Although is not a candidate for a lung transplant now, the 30-year-old Vestaburg woman said may someday need a transplant because of her cystic fibrosis.
Timothy Ray Brown, a HIV positive man, was administered a blood stem cell transplant from bone marrow in 2007 to treat relapsed leukaemia.
By: Branden Largent Like most 6-year-olds, Charlie Knuth loves to swim and run through sprinklers. But this wasn’t always the case. Because of a rare genetic skin disease — Epidermolysis bullosa — blisters covered 90 percent of his body for the f…
Authorities searching for an 11-year-old cancer patient whose mother sneaked her out of a Phoenix hospital say the girl could die if she doesn’t get immediate medical attention.