ATLANTA -- Mortality rates from Clostridioides difficile-related infections have fallen steadily since 2016, but the condition continues to take an uneven lethal toll based on sex, demographics, and ...

Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults. Keystone ...

Sepsis patients who develop hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infections experience increased mortality, lengths of stay and costs, according to a study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

In U.S. hospitals, infections from C. difficile nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010 without improvements in mortality rates or lengths of stay, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection ...

As the effectiveness of antibiotics meant to fight the deadly superbug Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, wanes, a research team at the University of Houston is seeing positive results of a new ...

University of Wisconsin–Madison–led researchers report lower yet statistically non-significant recurrence of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) among adults given low-dose oral vancomycin during ...

Upstate Medical University seeks 1,000 central New York volunteers for a global Pfizer clinical trial testing a vaccine for ...