• The dangers that fracking poses to the environment and human health have not been
properly monitored or considered, according to a report by a panel of 14 international …

Health Canada released a guidance document to permit fecal transplants outside clinical
trials to treat cases of C. difficile that don't respond to conventional treatment with antibiotics …

Citing public pressure, the agency announced recently that it “intends to exercise
enforcement discretion” regarding the investigational new drug (IND) requirements while the …

Sometimes not even a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Fortunate, then, that
faecal transplants can be given by colonoscope or nasogastric tube. The procedure, which …

MSF is taking on that challenge, even though “It's quite different from what we usually do,”
says Isabelle Jeanson. Initially, MSF provided tents and semi-permanent structures. Now it is …

The New Bioethics is an international journal but this is the first issue since I became editor
that more than one paper in a single issue has been from the United States. This is a very …

Background Clostridioides difficile is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infection.
Despite multimodal prevention efforts, in-hospital transmission continues to occur. In this …

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Diarrhoea is the third biggest killer of children under five years old in Sub-Saharan Africa,
killing a child every 2.5 minutes. This year 44 million pregnant women will be infected with …

The value and potential benefit of human excrement has long been recognised. in
preindustrial Japan, it had an economic value and 'night soil', collected for use as a fertiliser …