The CDD has appointed PhD Dietitian Annabel Clancy to support and guide patients on dietary matters before and after procedures and treatments at the CDD. Annabel graduated from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics with honours. She is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian at the Centre for Digestive Diseases, supporting the dietary […]
Professor Borody is featured in Health Agenda “Gut Instinct – how our gut could be curing major diseases”.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.