There’s a reason surgeons wear masks and gloves. The last thing you want is to get crap in someone’s body. That is, unless you are one of the two UC Davis Medical Center neurosurgeons who very ...

Someone’s poop could be another person’s medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, as part of an experimental new treatment that has prospective patients lining up and friends offering to donate their ...

An emerging treatment for a common hospital-acquired infection could be (slightly) less gross in the future. Researchers have found that delivering a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) in a pill—a poop ...

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