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 ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UPI) --Ultraviolet C light disinfection on unoccupied patient rooms in hospitals significantly reduces C. difficile infections, researchers say in a new study. The research was ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — Half a million people this year will get an infection called C. diff. It ranges from uncomfortable to life-threatening. And in more and more cases, doctors are turning to an ...

An outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) in a healthcare facility can cause higher death rates, increased length of stay and add stress on lab testing services. “All of these factors place a ...

The Infectious Diseases Society of America and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America updated guidelines on assessing kidney damage caused by fluid loss in patients with severe C. difficile ...

Researchers polled 119 patients who had suffered recurrent C. diff infections and were treated at Chicago-area hospitals. They defined recurrent infections as a second episode of C. diff within 15 to ...

After more than a year of battling an intestinal bacteria that sometimes meant a dozen trips to the bathroom daily, Tina Miller was desperate for relief. So were her parents. The 42-year-old York ...

Nearly 8% of infected patients who were readmitted to the hospital were diagnosed with recurrent C. diff, indicating that they had been reinfected in a post-discharge setting or were not entirely ...

The digestive disorder known as Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, is a potentially life-threatening intestinal infection, but there is an option out there that's fast and has about a 90-percent ...

New research from infection control specialists found that ultraviolet robots helped reduce the rates transmission of the common bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile among cancer ...

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 ...

Opioids affect both the gut and the immune system, said Summer Thompson, an assistant professor studying gut-brain ...