Items Tagged ‘fecal transplant’
April 2, 2019
Purna Kashyap, M.B.B.S. – testing the bugs within to maintain health, detect and treat disease
By Sharon Rosen 
The use of microbiome testing – which analyzes the trillions of bacteria in and on the body – is on the move. It’s going from the research lab into the clinic to help guide patient care. DNA testing technologies have revolutionized researchers’ ability to identify individual bacterial strains driving disease. Now genomic testing is helping […]
Tags: #blood sugar levels, #Center for Individualized Medicine Microbiome Program, #diabetes, #digestive health, #glucose levels, #inflammatory bowel disease, #obesity, #personalized diet, c. difficile, center for individualized medicine, colorectal cancer, Dr. Purna Kashyap
January 14, 2016
By Jeff Briggs 
You may love or hate all that happens in your gut, but understanding it will have a profound effect on your health. Mayo Clinic researchers in the Microbiome Program, one of the signature programs here at the Center for Individualized Medicine, are discovering that the human microbiome does much more for us — both good […]
Tags: c. dif, c. difficile, center for individualized medicine, Clostridium Difficile, colon cancer, Dr. Heidi Nelson, Dr. Purna Kashyap, fecal transplant, IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, microbiome, Microbiome Program
August 28, 2014
Microbiome Medicine is Sometimes a Hard Pill to Swallow
By Center for Individualized Medicine 
Article Originally Featured on NationalGeographic.com Written by: Carl Zimmer I can still remember the shock I felt when I heard about fecal microbiota transplants for the first time. It is not the sort of thing you forget. At a microbiology conference, a scientist was giving a lecture about the microbiome–the microbes that live harmlessly inside of us. […]
Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, DNA, DNA Sequencing, dna test, DNA Testing, fecal transplant, gene sequencing, Genetics, genome, genome science, Genome Sequencing
April 8, 2014
Children Benefit from Fecal Transplant to Combat C. Difficile
By Center for Individualized Medicine
Article Originally Featured in Digestive Disease Update To address the issues of rising cases in children with cases of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), and the rise of recurrence in children, Mark G. Bartlett, M.D., a pediatric gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. initiated a fecal microbiota transplant program for young patients with refractory C. […]
Tags: c. difficile, children, Clostridium Difficile, digestive, digestive disease, Fecal, fecal transplant, mark bartlett, microbiota, pediatrics
October 24, 2013
Microbiome Transplant: A Patient’s Story
By AJ Montpetit 
I’ve been a paraplegic and a Mayo Clinic patient for over 10 years. My legs decided to stop working in a matter of a few short months due to a spinal tumor, so I didn’t think I was a stranger to adversity. Then I met a nasty little bug they call C. Difficile. […]
Tags: c. difficile, center for individualized medicine, Dianne Shea, Fecal, fecal transplant, Heather Johnson, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, microbiome, Microbiome Transplant, nicholas chia, personalized care
October 3, 2013
By AJ Montpetit
“Individualized Medicine is no longer the stuff of science fiction.” —Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., Pharmacogenomic Program director and conference co-director This quote from pioneering , Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., set the tone for Individualizing Medicine 2013: From Promise to Practice. With more than 750 physicians, researchers, scientists, medical staff, genetic counselors and others gathering in Rochester to exchange ideas, it’s […]
Tags: Bioethics, breast cancer, c. difficile, cancer, center for individualized medicine, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, DNA, exome, fecal transplant, gene sequencing, genetic
September 27, 2013
Mayo Clinic Study Finds Fecal Transplants Effective
By AJ Montpetit
A simple treatment that involves transplanting healthy feces into a patient suffering from a debilitating and sometimes deadly infection of the colon called Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, is continuing to show significant promise, according to researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Read more.
Tags: c. difficile, Clostridium Difficile, fecal transplant, gene sequencing, Genetics, genome, Genome Sequencing, genomics, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, personalized medicine
July 11, 2013
The Human Microbiome Studies At Mayo Clinic
By Center for Individualized Medicine
In the fight against disease, we’re vastly outnumbered. The number of bacterial cells and their genetic material far outnumber human cells and genes. Take the digestive tract as an example. In the lower digestive tract (commonly called the gut), there are about 10 times as many bacterial cells as there are human cells. The genetic […]
Tags: bacteria, c. dif, c. difficile, center for individualized medicine, fecal transplant, genetic test, genome, genomics, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, microbiome