C. diff causes an estimated 500,000 infections in the U.S. each year, with the highest risk among older adults and people with weakened immune systems.

Pfizer's vaccine for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) looks like it may join a growing list of candidates that have been shelved or delayed, after the shot failed to meet its primary objective in a ...

RBX2660 was well-tolerated and achieved its primary endpoint of preventing C. diff. recurrence; patients treated with RBX2660 exhibited a treatment success rate of 78.8% compared with a historical ...

Although antibiotics are the first-line treatment for C. diff, they can be expensive and cause adverse effects while also potentially contributing to antibiotic resistance, the authors noted, so ...

DeLeon’s findings suggest that doctors need to better understand the risks of fecal matter transplants before this treatment can be used for diseases other than C. diff.

C. diff is a problem around the country. Other local hospitals that scored worse than the national benchmark on C. diff were Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital and Tucson Medical Center.

C. difficile is implicated as the causative organism in 10–25% of patients who develop antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), 50–75% of those with antibiotic-associated colitis and 90–100% of ...

B.C. Ferries had hoped to buy five new vessels and bring its major fleet size from 10 to 11, but the provincial regulator rejected the pitch earlier this year, saying a fifth ferry "is not in the ...

Matteo Bassetti; Giovanni Villa; Davide Pecori; Alessandra Arzese; Mark Wilcox Disclosures Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2012;10 (12):1405-1423.

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Defense Priorities' Rosemary Kelanic and American Enterprise Institute's Danielle Pletka discuss U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear facilities and role in the Israel-Iran conflict. Key Capitol Hill ...

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