While immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment have had monumental benefits for cancer care, dichotomy in cohorts of patients who respond and do not respond to these modalities remains a ...

Medications across drug classes can leave long-lasting marks on the gut microbiome, reshaping ecosystems in ways clinicians may soon be able to anticipate.

A newly identified metabolite in human feces improves immunotherapy and could radically change the treatment of lung cancer.

Joseph Brasco, MD, spent a year and a half convincing the board of directors of the Huntsville (Ala.) Center for Colon and Digestive Disease to allow him to perform fecal microbiota transplant in the ...

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.

Fecal transplants have been successfully used to treat gastrointestinal conditions. Researchers are currently studying whether they may also be used for weight loss and other metabolic issues. A fecal ...