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Same stool sample, different results in gut microbiome tests

Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

Same Poop, Different Results: At-Home Gut Health Tests Are Wildly Inconsistent, Study Finds

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...
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Shineco granted US patent, FDA marketing approval for fecal specimen sampling device

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Shineco Inc. announced it has been granted a United States Patent and Trademark Office patent and FDA marketing ...
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Direct-to-consumer gut-microbiome companies cannot provide consistent results

US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of ...
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Mail-Order Stool Testing for IBD Favorable to Patients

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...
Health.com

Calprotectin Fecal Test: What It Is and What To Expect

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...
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More than 10% of samples from a stool-based colorectal cancer test may be unsatisfactory

More than 10% of fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) used for routine colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in a safety-net health system contained unsatisfactory samples that could not be processed, ...