On Long Island, as elsewhere, C. diff is a formidable foe, spreading mostly in health care settings. The experimental "poop pill" was developed by Canadian researchers, who designed it to prevent ...

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 ...

Forget the enema bag and the tube that snakes down the throat to the intestines — the future of treatment for persistent Clostridium difficile infections may come in pill form. A Calgary ...

Thomas Louie, clinical professor at the Cumming School of Medicine and the Calgary FMT study co-lead and senior author, pioneered the development of the FMT pill in 2013. "Recurrent C. difficile ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pills have proven effective against Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections. Hold your nose and don’t spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into ...

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.

UK doctors are attempting to clear dangerous superbug infections using "poo pills" containing freeze-dried faeces. The stool ...

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 ...

When it comes to treating Clostridium difficile with a fecal transplant — yes, human poop ... C. difficile to flourish in those exposed to the bug. Not only did the tasteless and odourless pills ...

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.