Microbiome News

• Gluten Intake in Toddlers Not Tied to Risk of Progression to Type 1 Diabetes Gluten intake is not associated with islet autoimmunity or progression to type 1 diabetes in high-risk older infants and toddlers, according to results from the DAISY study.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2019
• Lactobacilli Reduce Wheat-Induced Intestinal Inflammation in Mice Lactobacilli reduce wheat-induced intestinal inflammation in mice by degrading wheat amylase trypsin inhibitors (ATI), researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2019
• Gut Microbes May Predict Lupus Flares Disease flares in patients with lupus may be linked to decreased diversity of gut microbes and intestinal permeability, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• AAAAI 2019Children Raised on Farms Avert Allergies Infants exposed to a diverse environment and animals have bacteria in their gut microbiomes that protect against atopy and asthma, new research shows, offering clues to future treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• High-Fat Diet Adversely Affects Gut Microbiota Higher-fat diets have unfavorable effects on gut microbiota, fecal metabolites and plasma proinflammatory factors, researchers from China report.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2019
• AAAAI 2019Historic Change Imminent in Food Allergy, Asthma Treatments Biologics, gene therapy, alterations to the microbiome, and immunotherapy are all dramatically changing the way allergy and asthma will be treated.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Gut Bacteria Tied to Depression Researchers identify specific gut bacteria associated with depression and create the first catalogue of potentially neuroactive gut bacteria.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Microbiome Model Predicts Glucose Spikes Better Than Carbs The findings may be a step toward personalized nutrition plans, according to the authors.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• ISC 2019More Evidence Links Gut Bacteria to Dementia Depletion of certain gut bacteria, and an elevated level of other bacteria, are associated with an increased risk for dementia, a new study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Jury Still Out on Fecal Transplants for Obesity As interest in fecal transplants from healthy donors to tackle obesity is gathering pace, results from trials are eagerly awaited to further inform on this topic, say experts.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Microbiome Analysis Powers Insights to Improve Sleep New technologies can help identify poor sleep patterns and help physicians and patients find solutions, such as making changes to alter the microbiome.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2019
• Fecal-Microbiota Transplant Beats Antibiotics for Recurrent C Diff Fecal-microbiota transplantation (FMT) is superior to 10 days of fidaxomicin or vancomycin for resolving recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), according to results from a randomized open-label clinical trial.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• Probiotics Effective for Functional Abdominal Pain in Children Probiotics can ease pain short-term in children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), according to a new report.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• Food-based Diet May Be Comparable to Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Kids With Crohn's A pilot study suggests that an individualized, food-based diet (CD-TREAT) may be as effective as exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) in treating children with Crohn's disease (CD), according to European researchers.
  Reuters Health Information, December 2018
• 'Low Gluten' Benefits Linked to Dietary Fibers, Not Gluten Healthy adults had less bloating and felt better on low-gluten vs high-gluten diets, apparently as a result of changes in gut microbes driven by dietary fiber differences, not gluten levels.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• ASH 2018Microbiome Before HSCT Predictive of Survival and Complications Patients with the lowest gut microbial diversity had poorer survival and a higher risk of graft versus host disease, observed across diverse cultures and countries.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Metformin's Effect in Diabetes Linked to Gut Microbiota Changes New research links changes in gut microbiota and intestinal farnesoid X receptor with metformin's clinical benefits in diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Probiotics No Better Than Placebo for Gastroenteritis Probiotics were no better than placebo for treating gastroenteritis in children, two studies have found.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• ACAAI 2018Licking Pacifier to Clean It May Cut Allergy Risk A parent licking a child's pacifier clean might be better than washing it, and an epinephrine autoinjector still works after it is frozen, say two studies looking at questions parents want answers to.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Fecal Transplant May Resolve Immunotherapy-Related Colitis Colitis associated with the use of checkpoint inhibitors may be managed successfully by fecal microbiota transplant, says a team reporting results in two patients.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018