Over the past 20 years, physicians have experimented with what they euphemistically call "fecal transplants" to treat C. diff. These involve taking stool from a patient's family member, mixing it ...

Shawn Mulligan, 53, of Calgary, Canada, is among the first patients to test prototype poop pills to cure recurrent intestinal infections caused by Clostridium difficile or C. diff.

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a terrible way to die. It's an antibiotic-resistant gut bug that causes painful diarrhea, fever and kidney failure. Almost half a million Americans are diagnosed ...

The experimental "poop pill" was developed by Canadian researchers, who designed it to prevent recurrent C. diff, which can prove fatal. Lead investigator, Dr. Thomas Louie, discussed his pill ...

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections are severe and cause terrible symptoms in patients. One effective, but strange treatment for the illness is a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), in which ...

Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do fecal transplants It ...

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Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections -- a less yucky way to do "fecal tra ...

Canadian doctor Dr. Tom Louie has treated 27 patients with his handmade pills. All were cleared of their C. difficile infections. Can they be mass-produced?

Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants ...