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Hot bowels

T here are varied reasons for inflammation of the colon, including Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis and various less common categories. Patients with chronic colonic inflammation, more commonly known as “hot bowels”, have increased susceptibility to develop bowel cancer. Hence, it is important to check the colon in these patients at least every three years and sometimes […]

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New research findings

Prof Borody’s research interests have always been diverse and exciting, we now find ourselves at the forefront of emerging therapies for historical diseases. Neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and other conditions such as Coronary Heart Disease take on new meanings as we tackle them in our gastroenterological way. Coronary Heart […]

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The business of poo

Faecal transplantation has taken on a new name recently decided upon by the North American Working Group in the area. It will now be called faecal microbiota transplant or FMT. This indicates that the origin of the bacteria is from faeces, Microbiota and in fact that we are Transplanting living cells. The stimulus for growing […]

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