FDA Comes to Grips with Fecal Transplants
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
The brown slurry is piped through tubes into the top of the human body -- or the bottom. It can even come in pill form. For years, doctors have been transferring feces into ill people’s intestines to replace resident microbes with a fresh batch. The procedure is often a therapeutic success, but protocols for it vary wildly. As it steadily grows more popular, regulators are now working to define what a standard fecal transplant should be, and how to deliver one safely. [More]