Maryn McKenna has two new pieces on fecal transplants on her blog and in the latest issue of Scientific American (full text here). These are very well written. I plan to use these for patient education when I see patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection for whom fecal transplantation may be an option.
Addendum (2/1/12): Click here to listen to an interview with Maryn McKenna on the topic of fecal transplants.
Friday, December 9, 2011
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Kind of cool that Fecal transplants got a front page on Wired's website.
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