So I was waiting for a robust clarifying response from the NCAA. The answer was that players have the same opportunity as other students to select a formal meal plan allowing them three full meals a day.

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Though faecal transplantation for C. difficile has still to undergo a formal clinical trial, with a proper control group, it looks a promising (and cheap) answer to a serious threat.

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The answer, it was generally agreed, is to build on the private-sector experience that the formal list of conserved areas does not yet acknowledge.

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