Randomized Things

The Consumer: New Weight Watchers Plan Leaves Some Grumbling

6 Feb 2012

An overhaul to Weight Watchers' diet plan has caused many longtime members to complain about slow weight loss.

C. diff patients overcome 'ick factor' to embrace therapy

6 Feb 2012

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.

Desperate C. diff patients overcome 'ick factor' to embrace unusual therapy

6 Feb 2012

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.