DEAR DR. ROACH: We have a friend hospitalized with C. diff several months ago after working at an assisted-living facility. How do we minimize the risk to our family when this person visits our home?

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...

A health care provider cleans their hands. Hand hygiene is a crucial measure to prevent the invisible spread of C. difficile and other infections. IMPACT: The results could spur more rigorous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a ...

A group of frontline hospital workers who often go unseen in day-to-day patient care was recognized Friday at University ...

The hospital-acquired infection Clostridium difficile, which causes inflammation of the colon and can be deadly among elderly patients, may be spread outside the hospital setting via food, according ...

One of the most common health care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times more than previously thought, new research has found. There's a lot going on ...

A drug called ebselen could help stop the spread of Clostridium difficile infections even though it’s not an antibiotic, according to a study published in Science Translational Medicine and covered by ...

More than half the time, C. diff passed between patients who weren’t in the hospital at the same time MONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A notorious hospital-associated infection has been ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known as C. diff—are a serious and persistent problem for patients and hospitals ...