A new RAND Corporation study finds that taking probiotics can reduce the risk of developing the diarrhea that is a common side effect of taking antibiotics. Probiotics are microorganisms that are ...

The human gastrointestinal tract houses roughly 100 trillion microorganisms (good bacteria). These microorganisms make up ...

LAS VEGAS — Potentially deadly antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) affects 3 million Americans each year and is increasingly difficult to treat. Clinicians may want ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Regression models were used to evaluate the relationship between pretreatment diarrhea and treatment arm ...

May 8, 2012 — Probiotics appear to reduce risk for antibiotic-related diarrhea, although questions of which probiotics work best, with which antibiotics, or even how much probiotic someone needs to ...

Probiotics (microbes that protect their host and can prevent disease) can prevent diarrhoea associated with the use of antibiotics, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. Researchers at the Hammersmith ...

YICHANG, China, Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Angel Yeast Co., Ltd ("Angel Yeast" or "Angel"), a listed high-tech yeast company in China, announced its nutritional R&D team has developed a new strain ...

The use of probiotics to prevent diarrhea was evaluated in a randomized trial of 135 hospitalized patients taking antibiotics (BMJ. 2007;335:80; full-text available ...

A problem with studies supporting the prophylactic use of probiotics for diarrhea has been the use of different preparations. Gutierrez-Castrellon and colleagues studied Lactobacillus reuteri 17938, a ...

Postbiotics may have many benefits, including reducing inflammation and strengthening your immune system. Studies show that ...

You can now purchase postbiotics in supplement form and some studies look promising, but do they actually benefit gut health?