Cleveland.com | Fecal transplants being used to treat difficult C. diff cases
For years, hospitals have struggled to help patients overcome the life-threatening gut infection.
CDD featured in the media
News.com.au | Super poo: Are faecal transplants the way of the future?
“It’s already happening in America,” Professor Thomas Borody, director of the Centre for Digestive Diseases told news.com.au.
smh.com.au | Blood bank, sperm bank … stool bank?
Drugmakers racing to develop medicines and vaccines to combat a germ that ravages the gut and kills thousands have a new challenger: the human stool.
ABC Sundays with Jennifer Fleming | Prof Thomas Borody interview – Faecal microbiota transplantation
https://centrefordigestivediseases.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ABCSundayswithJenniferFleming.mp3marybacon.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.
Super poo: Are faecal transplants the way of the future?
YOU’VE heard of sperm banks and blood banks – but what about stool banks? “Contrary to popular belief, stool has no waste in it – it’s a mass of good bacteria,” says Prof Borody, who does one to six transplants a week in his Five Dock clinic. “The incoming bacteria are capable of killing bad […]
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.