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 ...

Clostridioides difficile(C. diff) is a bacterium that can infect the large intestine. Antibiotics used to treat it have been traditionally evaluated in a monoculture – not considering interactions ...

A drug called ebselen could help stop the spread of Clostridium difficile infections even though it’s not an antibiotic, according to a study published in Science Translational Medicine and covered by ...

Human waste has long been thought of as just that: everything the body doesn’t want or need. But new research is showing that feces may contain valuable organisms that can actually treat disease. In a ...

Nurses at the bedside play a key role in prevention of hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile in patients, a new study has found. Hospitals that scored higher on the Practice Environment Scale of the ...