by Brendan Pease “It just seemed like it was impossible,” said Kathryn Riffenburg, a resident of nearby Chicopee, Massachusetts. “We went from sitting in the hospital day by day, waiting for him to get better for almost two weeks, to doctors telling us we had a 50/50 chance he was going to make it.” TwoContinue reading “Fear vs. Fact: The Modern Anti-Vaccination Movement”
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Fighting Infections with Feces: The Promise of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
by Brendan Pease The phrase “cutting-edge medical treatment” often conjures up images of complex technologies derived from neural mapping or stem cell research. However, one of the newest medical treatments may not originate from neurons or progenitor cells, but from fecal matter. Every year, the bacterium Clostridium difficile kills 14,000 Americans and infects many more,Continue reading “Fighting Infections with Feces: The Promise of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation”
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