Download This PaperFecal Microbiota Transplants - Too Simple to be Safe? Case Histories of Transformational Advances
Posted: 18 Jun 2024 Last revised: 28 Dec 2024
Date Written: May 31, 2024
Abstract
By 2013, after many decades of very slow development and adoption, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation procedures were attracting widespread attention. This case history chronicles the: 1) pioneering fecal transplants performed in the 20th century; 2) development of the transplants after 2000; and 3) the situation in May 2013 when the U.S. FDA announced a new—and controversial policy for regulating the procedures.
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment, Innovation and Invention, Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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Bhide, Amar and Datar, Srikant, Fecal Microbiota Transplants - Too Simple to be Safe? Case Histories of Transformational Advances (May 31, 2024). Harvard Business Working Paper No. 21-132, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4865784 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4865784
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