Four patients with severe disease were cured after receiving the new broad-spectrum antibiotic tigecycline. When patients with Clostridium difficile colitis do not respond to usual treatment with ...

Outcomes of colorectal cancer hospitalization with and without coexisting nutritional anemia: A National Inpatient Sample (NIS) 2016 to 2019 database study. Effect of pertinent non-demographic ...

An inflammation of the colon associated with C. difficile — C. difficile colitis — has increased nearly 50 percent from 2001-2005 to 2006-2010, according to a study in the Journal of the American ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine's William A. Petri Jr., MD, PhD, (left) and David Tyus suggests that doctors may be able to save patients from dangerous C. difficile ...

Q: I'm not sure you'll take this question because of the subject matter, but it seems pretty important. Our dad had a fecal transplant as a last-ditch treatment for C. diff (Clostridioides difficile), ...

The portion of our nervous systems responsible for the 'fight or flight' response can shape the severity of potentially deadly C. difficile infections, according to new research. The portion of our ...

Clostridium difficile infections elevate the risks for colectomy, mortality and postoperative complications after a colectomy for patients with ulcerative colitis, according to NEJM Journal Watch.

Risk for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection wasn't any greater with vedolizumab (Entyvio) versus anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents for ulcerative colitis, a researcher reported. In a ...

Seres Therapeutics’ microbiome-based candidate SER-287 failed to improve outcomes in a phase II trial in ulcerative colitis. This setback has raised questions about the use of consortia of bacteria ...