Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, holds a container of stool pills in triple-coated gel capsules in his lab in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die. A very potent and pricey antibiotic can kill C-diff but also destroys good bacteria that live in the gut, leaving it more susceptible to future infections. Recently, studies have shown that fecal transplants - giving infected people stool from a healthy donor - can restore that balance. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh)Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have discovered a technique to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure severe intestine infections — a much less yucky strategy to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured all of them after sturdy antibiotics failed to assist.