U.S. officials have approved the first pharmaceutical-grade version of so-called fecal transplant procedures
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have approved the first pharmaceutical-grade version of the so-calledprocedures that doctors have increasingly used against hard-to-treat intestinal infections.
For more than a decade, some U.S. doctors have used stool samples from healthy donors to treat the condition. The healthy bacteria from donors’ gut has been shown to help recipients fight off C. diff bacteria. The procedure has grown more common as many patients no longer respond to traditional antibiotics.
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