18Jan/13

Clinical trial proves the effectiveness of faecal transplants

A little more than a year ago, I wrote a piece in Scientific American about faecal transplants — replacing the stool in someone’s colon with stool donated by someone else — as a treatment for the pernicious, recurrent diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile infection. I have been a journalist for two decades, and some of my stories have won prizes, triggered hearings and legislation, and …