Gut Instinct | spotlight on Professor Borody | Health Agenda
Professor Borody is featured in Health Agenda “Gut Instinct – how our gut could be curing major diseases”.
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The Australian | Prof. Borody credited for saving Bob Hawke’s life
D’Alpuget credited Sydney gastroenterologist Thomas Borody — renowned globally for his innovative clinical work on complex gastrointestinal disorders — for saving the life of the great political slugger, devising the miraculous cocktail of specialist medicationss that saw the unsinkable Silver Bodgie live to slam another pint, though easy-drinking strawberry milkshakes are more his poison these […]
Crestovo Doses Patients in PRISM 3, a Clinical Trial of CP101, a Microbiome Therapy for the Prevention of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection
CP101 is the lead, orally-administered product generated from Crestovo’s Full-Spectrum MicrobiotaTM (FSMTM) platform PRISM 3 includes 240 patients at clinical sites with broad coverage throughout the U.S. The company is based on foundational clinical research from gut microbiota-based treatment pioneers, Dr. Thomas J. Borody, Dr. Alexander Khoruts and Dr. Michael J. Sadowsky June 27, 2017 […]
Microbiome leader Professor Borody calls for a National Australian FMT Bank to fight Drug Resistant Diseases
SYDNEY, AUS, May 19, 2017 – (ACN Newswire) – Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) leader Professor Thomas Borody (MD, PhD) has called for a national faecal bank to fight drug resistant and epidemic diseases in hospitals and clinics across the country. Professor Borody, the Founder and Medical Director of the Centre for Digestive Diseases (CDD) in […]
Fecal Microbiota Transplant Induces Steroid-free Remission in Ulcerative Colitis Patients, Study Reports
A clinical study found that multi-donor fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) successfully induced clinical and endoscopic remission in patients with resistant active ulcerative colitis (UC). Results from the placebo-controlled trial were presented at the recent 11th Congress of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO), held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read more
The Catalyst | Human Probiotic Infusion
Quite simply, HPI involves infusing a patient with someone else’s faeces. It’s a confronting treatment, but one which patients suffering from the tummy superbug, Clostridium difficile, are prepared to undertake in order to get their lives back to normal.
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