Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Fecal Transplants and Chronic Diarrhea

There might be a new way to offer a cure for people who have permanent damage to the good bacteria in their intestines. It involves taking a stool sample from a healthy donor and putting it into the patient, so that the bacteria in the healthy stool is introduced into the environment and repopulates the intestine. However, this transplant is not widely performed and the government isn't entirely sure how to regulate it.

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