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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.