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Randomized Things - Yahoo! News Search Results Desperate C. diff patients overcome 'ick factor' to embrace unusual therapy TORONTO - The way Susan Dunn sees it, there is no ick factor involved in the unconventional treatment that cured her of C. difficile, an infection that had made her life a living hell for nine months. Detailed results from ALSYMPCA phase III study with Al. Poster title: Abstract #9: Radium-223 chloride impact on skeletal-related events in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with bone metastases: A phase III randomized trial (ALSYMPCA). C. diff patients overcome 'ick factor' to embrace therapy Fecal transplants, which were first done in the late 1950s, are emerging as a highly successful therapy for many tough-to-cure C. difficile cases. Randomized controlled trials are underway in Europe and at Toronto's University Health Network to prove the point. |