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marybacon.com | Interview with Professor Tom Borody
Prof. Thomas Borody is the founder and Medical Director of CDD. His keen interest in medical research led to the establishment of the Centre so as to provide both diagnostic procedures and effective treatments.
smh.com.au | Gut Microbes Best Friend Worst Enemy
It’s one of medicine’s hot topics – that the microbes in our gut may contribute to hard-to-treat problems like allergies, auto immune disease, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and even obesity and diabetes.
2UE Radio Podcast | Healthy Living with Dr Ross Walker, Interview with Thomas Borody
Interview with Thomas Borody starts at 1h 19mins.
CNN | Little-known fecal transplant cures woman’s bacterial infection
After surviving a near-fatal car accident, Kaitlin Hunter found herself battling a devastating bacterial infection in her colon that also threatened her life.
The Economist | Microbes maketh man
POLITICAL revolutionaries turn the world upside down. Scientific ones more often turn it inside out. And that, almost literally, is happening to the idea of what, biologically speaking, a human being is.
Cosmos | Poo transplants to treat range of diseases
We face some pretty grim treatment options for the sake of our health. We swallow foul-tasting pills, vaccinate ourselves with live microorganisms, rub smelly tinctures into our wounds, and ask surgeons to cut us open.
ABC News | New stomach bug infecting more patients
A virulent new strain of a bacterial stomach bug called Clostridium difficile is becoming more common in Australian hospitals.
careandcost.com | Fecal Transplantation for Refractory C. Difficile Infections – Care And Cost
Whether you call it by its scientific name, fecal microbiota transplantation, or by the tongue in cheek equivalent, “transpoosion,” there is no getting around it – this treatment for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) involves introducing a blenderized sample of a healthy person’s stool into the gut of the infected individual.