Pittsburgh, PA based Allegheny Health Network (AHN) today announced a new resource for patients with treatment-resistant Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections who may benefit from fecal transplant...

In a follow-up to my interview last week about Clostridium difficile, Rodrigo Muñoz, a Clinical Outreach Associate and Princeton Project 55 Fellow with the Massachusetts-based non profit stool bank,...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says: C. difficile was estimated to cause almost half a million infections in the United States in 2011, and 29,000 died within 30 days of the initial...

Among adults with Clostridium difficile infection that is recurrent or not responsive to treatment, the use of frozen compared with fresh fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) did not result in a significantly...

Merck has announced that the two pivotal Phase 3 clinical studies for bezlotoxumab, its investigational antitoxin for prevention of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection recurrence, met their...

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control...

A new report from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York shows that a distinct population of microbes reintroduced into a patient could clear out rampant Clostridium difficile infections. Clostridium difficile...

Infections with the intestinal superbug C. difficile nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010 in U.S. hospitals without noticeable improvement in patient mortality rates or hospital lengths of stay, according...

Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to the company’s investigational Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) vaccine candidate...

PRESS RELEASE Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, presented Phase II trial (H-030-012) results for an investigational vaccine for the prevention of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection...