Approximately 500,000 Americans develop C. difficile infections each year, and about 30,000 die. Further, patients who make ...

Researchers studied 187 isolates of C. difficile collected from patients ... A 31-year-old woman pregnant with twins developed severe colitis that evolved into toxic megacolon; both the patient ...

Researchers have uncovered potentially diagnostic gut microbiome signatures and metabolic pathways associated specifically with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

Q. My son picked up an infection in the hospital recently. It sounded like the doctors were calling it “see-dift.” It gave him terrible diarrhea. Do you know what this is? A. The doctors were ...