Antibiotic-resistant CDIs were declared an urgent threat to public health by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013. A 2011 study estimated that CDIs kill about 29,000 Americans each ...

HCR ManorCare, the second-largest nursing-home chain, exposed its roughly 25,000 patients to increasing health risks in the 5 years preceding its bankruptcy; Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, is ...

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 ...

A potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal infection is more common than previously estimated, federal health officials reported Wednesday. The estimate, based on an analysis of data collected at ...

The deadly superbug, Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), is putting up a winning fight against hospital-grade disinfectants meant to kill it, reports a pharmacy professor in a study that helps explain ...

Making data on Clostridium difficile infections at nursing homes available to the public, in Ohio and nationally, will allow consumers to choose facilities more wisely and reward places with healthier ...

Nursing assistants are more vulnerable to Clostridium difficile (C. diff) contamination on their hands than other healthcare workers, according to a new study published in Infection Control and ...