First pill for fecal transplants wins FDA approval

By Associated Press

Apr 27, 2023 10:59 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: US health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.

The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help patients.

This photo provided by Seres Therapeutics shows manufacturing equipment for oral microbiome therapeutic capsules in the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts, facility in May 2022. PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE DE MANIO/ SERES THERAPEUTICS VIA AP

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