The study of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to reveal intricate details of its pathogenesis, epidemiology and potential novel therapies. Research has elucidated how the bacterium ...

More scientific evidence is emerging to show that our gastrointestinal system interacts with our nervous system ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is considered to be the main cause of bacterial infectious diarrhea in nosocomial settings. Since the beginning of the new century a continuous rise in the ...

Doctors have warned that more must be done to tackle the rise of a highly contagious bacteria. More than one in ten cases of ...

An expert panel convened has recommended against the routine use of PCR tests to diagnose urinary tract infections.

If your household has an infection like Norovirus, Dr Van Tulleken stated you’ll probably be best off washing on a 60°C cycle ...

New research undertaken by the University of Utah Health has found that one of the most common health care-associated infections spreads in intensive care units more than three times more than ...

British researchers who tested almost 1,000 patients with the allergy, found almost 90 per cent could actually safely use the ...

Dr. Dustin T. Smith and Dr. Joanna M. Bonsall reviewed nine key updates in hospital medicine at SHM Converge 2025.

As your immune system releases infection-fighting cells and materials ... diff, sometimes referred to as Clostridium difficile). While uncommon, this may occur weeks to months after taking an ...

If you take OTC proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), you could be among the uncounted. Familiar brands include Prilosec (omeprazole), Nexium (esomeprazole), and Prevacid (lansoprazole), among others. They ...