DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing diarrhea on and off. I initially spoke to my general physician, and he ...

One of the most common health care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times more than previously thought, new research has found. There's a lot going on ...

The highly contagious Clostridium difficil spreads more than three times as much within intensive care unit environments as previously recognized, according to a study published April 3 in JAMA ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

Late last year, The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health in Cincinnati received a first-place award in a multi-state competition for its efforts to reduce Clostridium difficile infections among inpatients.

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Study findings suggest healthcare providers should conduct active surveillance of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in C. diff patients, according to research published in the American Journal of ...

A new study on Clostridioides difficile infections finds that choosing an alternative antibiotic for high-risk patients with pneumonia can reduce infection risk. C. diff infections can be deadly, and ...

Christian John Lillis, cofounder and executive director of the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C difficile Education & Advocacy, explained how FDA-approved microbiome-based therapeutics help to treat and ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation has become one of the most effective treatments for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections, but its long-term role in gastroenterology may hinge on moving ...