The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant infection in a hospital or nursing home is dropping for the first time in decades, thanks to new guidelines on antibiotic use and stricter cleaning ...

Medically reviewed by Lindsey Waldman, MD, RD Key Takeaways Eat foods with probiotics like yogurt and kefir to help replenish ...

Susan Gottlieb recalls being wracked with unspeakable pain. Donna Gerek talks about the loneliness of a hospital isolation unit. And David Gould says he was considered a Typhoid Mary when fellow ...

Amid the growing prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms, hospitals must implement thorough prevention methods to reduce healthcare-associated infections and protect their bottom line. U.S. acute ...

Dr. Keith Roach writes a medical question-and-answer column weekdays. Dear Dr. Roach: In December, I developed an abscess in my jaw from food getting caught in my tooth. I went to see a dentist who ...

Clostridium difficile caused nearly half a million infections in U.S. patients in 2011, and C. diff infections kill roughly 15,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Nearly half a million people in the United States suffer from an intestinal infection called Clostridium difficile each year. Approximately half of those individuals become sick enough to require ...

Some infants carry the diarrhea-causing bacteria Clostridium difficile in their guts without any symptoms, but the bacteria may rapidly disappear when these infants switch from drinking breast milk to ...

A potential breakthrough in developing a vaccine against Clostridum difficile infections has been achieved by scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. “C. diff” is the ...

It seemed like such a great idea. But at the end of the day, as they say, those dogs didn’t hunt. Or at least not well enough. New research from Toronto throws into question the notion that canines ...