Posted 2/19/2014 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/health/a-new-kind-of-transplant-bank.html?ref=science&_r=0
"But where to get healthy donor stool? For doctors, it’s a tedious, time-consuming process, and some patients turn awkwardly to relatives or friends. Since September, openBiome has delivered more than 135 frozen, ready-to-use preparations to 13 hospitals. The nonprofit project fields dozens of requests from doctors, hospitals and patients every week. (The preparations are not sent directly to patients.)"
".....Mr. Smith and Eric J. Alm, an M.I.T. microbiologist and adviser to openBiome, said the F.D.A.’s classification of fecal transplants as drugs hinders research into their possible uses to treat inflammatory bowel diseases and obesity. "
This is great....one step closer to having FT becoming more accepted as a form of treatment.