SUP Magazine: Common Antibiotic Could Have Another Big Use, Study Says

A common antibiotic prescribed for infective diarrhea may also be effective in treating a specific type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to the latest research.  A study recently published in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis   found that vancomycin is effective in treating IBD that develops from primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an incurable autoimmune liver disease. The trial was small with only five patients, but four of the five—or 80 percent&...