Prescribing “good” bugs for the gut—it may sometimes be bad medicine.
That’s what Dutch doctors have concluded after reviewing the findings of a novel treatment in people with acute pancreatitis.
The researchers knew that some of their 296 patients would succumb to infectious complications of an inflamed pancreas, a gland that makes hormones and digestive juices.
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