which restores the healthy balance of bacteria living in the intestine by transferring a healthy donor's stool to the gut of a person with C. difficile. Dr. Thomas Louie, clinical professor at the ...

The drugs kill bad bugs, but also good ones, allowing germs like C. diff to take over and wreak havoc. Transplanting healthy stool helps rebalance the bacteria in the gut. But Louie said he ...

All had suffered at least four C. diff infections and relapses, but none had a recurrence after taking the poop pills. Margaret Corbin, 69, a retired nurse's aide from Calgary, told of the misery ...

diff. These involve taking stool from a patient's family ... the transplant had caused recurring C. diff infections. "The patient came in and had 12 pills in about three minutes, and that was ...

Instead of a colonoscopy, enema or tube up the nose, C. diff can now be treated by swallowing a small capsule. Yes, the pills are actually filled with poop. They contain essentially healthy ...

A Calgary doctor who has been treating difficult-to-cure C. difficile for years with fecal transplants is reporting he has created what are in essence poop pills — and they do the trick.

A new comparative study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that a new therapy for prevention of recurrent ...

This was the suggestion made to Carol Goble recently after she contracted Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a bowel infection ... bacteria is taken from the stool of a suitable donor.

This approach, fighting C. diff with healthy stool, is currently the only governmentally ... the donor is to “squeeze” the foul batter into the unsealed pills, “similar to how you apply ...