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ARTICLES
December 23, 2013, KUOW.ORG, Seattle Children’s Studies Fecal Transplants as a Cure for Bowel Disease
PRESIDENT’S NOTE: THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CHILLING ARTICLES I HAVE EVER READ: November 20, 2013, FERNews, medium.com, by Maryn McKenna: Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
November 20, 2013, Internal Medicine News, by Susan London: Fecal Transplant Found Effective in Immunocomprimised Patients
November 4, 2013, Toronto National Press, by Tom Blackwell: Toronto Hospital Building “Poop Bank” as an Antidote Against C. difficle
November 3, 2013, Long Island Newday, by Delthia Ricks: Fecal Transplant Procedure Pioneered by Lawrence Doctor in 1959 Makes a Comeback to Treat Antibiotic Resistant Illness
November 2, 2013, The Seattle Times, by Carol Ostrom: Wonder Cure For the Gut? FDA OK’s Fecal Transplants
November 2, 2013, thepowerofpoop.com, by Kenneth Spriggs: Crohnology’s FMT Users
October 28, 2013, The Province, by Drs. Oz and Roizen: The Pill That Balances Bacteria Can Also Keep C. diff. in Check
October 28, 2013: CBS: Fecal Transplant Used to Treat Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (featuring a video of Dr. Lawrence Brandt)
October 27, 2013: The Durango Herald, by Dr. Fraser Houston: This Treatment is Not Pretty, But it Appears to Work
October 17, 2013: Berkeley Wellness, by David Tuller: Fecal Transplants and the FDA
October 4, 2013: Highlight Press, by Eustace McKnight: From DIY Stool Enemas to “Poop Pills” – The Marvels of Modern Medicine
October 4, 2013: CourierMail.com.au, AP: “Poop Pills”, A Way of Doing Fecal Transplants, Can Cure Serious Gut Infections
October 3, 2013, CTVNews.ca, by Angela Mulholland: Some Colitis Patients Trying Do-It-Yourself Fecal Transplants
October 3, 2013, Doctors Lounge, HealthDay News: IDSA: Oral Ingestion Viable For Fecal Microbiome Transplant
October 3, 2013, The Las Vegas Guardian Express, by Jalan Salah: New Study Announces “Poop Pill” as the Breakthrough Clostridium difficile Cure
October 3, 2013, The Vancouver Sun, by Margaret Munro, Postmedia News: Potty Mouth? Disease Expert Finds Surprising Way to Help Patients Fight Debilitating C. difficile Illness
October 3, 2013, Infection Control Today, Posted in News, Clostridium difficile, Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Research: Fecal Transplant Pill Knocks Out C. difficile Infection, Study Shows
October 2, 2013, Natural Medicine Journal, by Mark Davis, ND (on Board of Directors of The Fecal Transplant Foundation): Fecal Transplants in Ulcerative Colitis
October 1, 2013, Science Daily, Story based on materials provided by the University of Vienna: Fecal Transplant: Microbial Restoration of the Inflamed Gut
October 1, 2013, Digital Journal, by Nancy Houser: Stool Banks Soon Needed to Treat C. difficile, a Bowel Disease
September 29, 2013, Miami Herald Health, by Elizabeth De Armas: A Fecal Transplant May Help Those With Chronic Diarrhea
September 28, 2013, The New York Times, by Ariel Kaminer: Didn’t Ace SAT? Just Design Microbe Transplant Research
September 26, 2013, Florida Today, by Lyn Dowling: Unusual Transplant Battles Bacterial Infection in Colon
September 24, 2013, WCVB.COM, Boston, by Tracy Hampton: Fecal Transplant for Crohn’s
September 16, 2013, CIDRAP, Lisa Schnirring, CDC: Antibiotic-resistant Bugs Sicken 2 Million a Year
September 12, 2013, Janie Grace, Online Seminar from the UK, 8:00PM UK time (BST) Featuring the Taymount Clinic: Digestive & Gut Health – Beyond Probiotics
September 9, 2013, NPR, by Rob Stien: From Birth, Our Microbes Become as Personal as a Fingerprint
September 9, 2013, NPR, by Ryan T. Conaty (about our own Dr. Colleen Kelly): Microbe Transplants Treat Some Diseases That Drugs Can’t Fix
September 9, 2013: TheTree of Life, by Jonathan Eisen: Fecal Transplants Taken Up by American Hospital Association in Letter to HHS about Medicare/Medicaid
September 8, 2013, CTV News, by Karolyn Coorsh: Experimental Fecal Transplants Could Revolutionize Treatment of Bowel Diseases
September 7, 2013: The Tree of Life, by Jonathan Eisen: Fecal Transplant Recruiting on Craigslist
September 5, 2013: The New York Times, by Gina Kolata: Gut Bacteria From Slim Humans Can Slim Mice Down
September 4, 2013: McKnight’s, by Ashley Carman: Toxin Identified to Diagnose Fatal Clostridium difficle Cases
September 1, 2013: Chonogram, by Wendy Kagan: Podcast: The Bug Cure
August 29, 2013: Science Magazine: Podcast with Jop de Vrieze on history and current use of fecal transplant.
August 29, 2013: Jopinie, by Jop de Vrieze, Independent Science Writer: A Quest for Poop
August 29, 2013: EndoNurse, by Michael Wald, M.D.: FDA Over-Regulating Fecal Transplants
August 27, 2013: The News~Sentinel: Drs. Oz and Roizen Discuss Intestinal Infection Fix: Stool Implant
August 24, 2013, EndoNurse: ASGE Launches Endo Videos; Explores Fecal Transplants:
August 22, 2013: Science Daily: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation as Effective Treatment for C. difficile and Other Infections
August 21, 2013: The Verge.com: The Future of Psychiatry May be Inside Your Stomach
Mayo Clinic in Arizona Announces FMT Department
August 17, 2013: Huffington Post: One Man’s Poo Is Another Man’s Prescription
August 5, 2013: The Voice of America: by Shelley Schlender: Fecal Transplants Used to Cure Intestinal Disorders
July 30, 2013: Salon.com, by Steve Mirsky: Don’t Let a Little Poop in Your Colon Scare You Off
July 29, 2013: ScienceDaily.com, by Johns Hopkins Medicine: Therapeutic Fecal Transplant: Hope for Cure of Childhood Diarrhea Comes Straight From the Gut
July 22, 2013: NPR, by Rob Stein: Staying Healthy May Mean Learning to Love Our Microbiomes
July 10, 2013, The Lansing Legal Examiner, by David Mittleman: Digestive Problems & The Miracle of Poop
July 9, 2013: MD-FM Insight, by Clementine Wallace: Clostridium difficile and Fecal Transplantation (an interview with our own Dr. Lawrence Brandt)
July 8th, 2013: Macleans, by Kate Lunau: A Miracle Cure, Not for the Squeamish
July 6, 2013: New York Times, by Marie Myung Ok Lee, Why I Donated My Stool
July 4, 2013: Portland Tribune, by Jeff Korn, about our own Dr. Mark Davis: Need Treatment Will Travel to Portland
July 4, 2013: The Power of Poo: by Tracy Mac: 14,000 Reasons to Support Catherine Duff’s FMT Foundation
About Our Own Drs. Kelly and Brandt
From our own Dr. Sachin Kunde: New Research Revealing the Newest FDA Approved Antibiotic: Human Stool
June 12, 2013: Scientific American: By Beth Mole & Nature Magazine: FDA Comes to Grips With Fecal Transplants
June 11, 2013: Pulse, Seattle Children’s: Flushing Out New Cures for Intestinal Disease
June 4, 2013: EurekAlert.org: by Jim Kuo: Monarch Labs & BTER Foundation Collaborate to Develop Fecal Transplantation Products
May 30, 2013: Huffington Post Science: Fecal Transplant Crackdown: FDA Moves to Regulate Infection-Fighting “Stool” Treatment
May 28, 2013: From Science.org, Tom Siegfried: Microbes at Home In Your Gut May Also Be Influencing Your Brain
May 24, 2013: From The Verge: by Amar Toor: No Shit: Can Fecal Transplants Save 14,000 Lives a Year?
It’s all in the Genes: Researchers Unravel Genetic Mechanism Behind Microbiome Colonization
April 10, 2013: Wiley Online Library: by Willem M. De Vos: Fame & Future of Faecal Transplantations – Developing Next Generation Therapies with Synthetic Microbiomes
February 15, 2013: Medscape, by David M. Johnson, M.D.: Fecal Transplant for C. difficile; A How To Guide
January 30, 2013: National Geographic: by Ed Yong: Gut Microbes Contribute to Mysterious Malnutrition
January 13, 2013: The New York Times, by Denise Grady, featuring our own Melissa Cabral: When Pills Fail, This, Er, Option Provides a Cure
July 12, 2010: The New York Times, by Carl Zimmer, about our own Dr. Alexander Khoruts: How Microbes Defend & Define Us
If you have scrolled through all these articles, you deserve a little comic relief. Here’s Jeff Foxworthy’s take on colonoscopies.