A trained dog can detect Clostridium difficile in stool samples and in hospital patients, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Researchers studied a two-year-old beagle trained to ...

Harvard researchers make the case for people storing their poop when young, in order to restore their gut microbiomes later in life. Reading time 3 minutes Experts at Harvard and elsewhere are ...

Traditional vs. novel therapy Fecal microbiota transplant has been used as the traditional treatment for C. diff. infection for a little over a decade. The procedure, which is done via colonoscopy, ...

A 70-year-old woman with a history of Clostridium difficile infection returned to the clinic with abdominal pain and diarrhea. Three stool samples were negative for C. difficile and WBCs. Would you ...

Most of us have heard of heart, liver and kidney transplants. But not many know about poop transplant or Faecal microbiota ...