C. difficile outbreak at Cambridge Memorial
...â€" Cambridge Memorial Hospital declared a C. difficile outbreak on Thursday. Three patients on the medicine unit acquired the bacterial infection within the past week. Two are expected to be discharged within the coming days. Extra cleaning is being done in...info
Self-Prescribed Fecal Transplant Saves Canadian Man's Life
...66-year-old man from Albert Bridge, Nova Scotia, who suffered from a bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, since undergoing routine surgery 18 months ago, according to the Chronicle Herald . The man, who spoke to the paper on...info
First Solar Among These Stocks Hitting New Lows Today
...of $18.72 to $26.15. Quidel Corp. (NASDAQ:QDEL): Quidel announced that it received CE mark for the Quidel Molecular Direct C. difficile Tox A/B assay for the detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile bacterial DNA. C. difficile infection is frequently associated...info
Hospitals should be clean
...in good health until having a bout of pancreatitis and admitted to the Greater Niagara General Hospital, where he contracted C-difficile. Investigative reporter Erica Johnson went to several hospitals and interviewed and filmed conditions that we all found...info
Ligue 1 - Nice - Lorient, les clés du match
...les bons résultats. Et c'est tout le contraire de Lorient, qui ne cesse de rentrer dans le rang. Toutefois, vu l'enjeu, il est difficile d'émettre le moindre pronostic concernant ce match. Rendez-vous dimanche vers 17h pour savoir ce que réservera la réalité...info
Bacterial Infection Ups Surgery Risk
...with Clostridium difficile infection have a higher risk of colectomy, reveals study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Infection from C. difficile is associated with antibiotic use and results in colitis and diarrhea. Severe cases can...info
Ventria completes VEN100 phase 2 trial on antibiotic-associated diarrhea
...and life threatening in high-risk patients including elderly, immune-compromised, or otherwise vulnerable patient groups. While Clostridium difficile is a known etiologic agent for diarrhea, C difficile infection explains less than half of all AAD cases....info
Legal: Wragge & Co team oversees a £56 million licensing agreement
...agreement, Astellas gains the right to develop and commercialise fidaxomicin tablets in Japan for the treatment of clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Wragge & Co partner Dr Luke Kempton led the deal, working closely with Michael Yoshida and Yu Otosaka...info
Patients with community-onset CDI have increased risk of colectomy
...in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Infection from C. difficile is associated with antibiotic use and results in colitis and diarrhea. Severe cases can be life-threatening. Colectomy,...info
New York Law Firm Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman Discusses Concerns...
...care received in health care facilities; of those, 75 percent are first identified in nursing home patients. Clostridium difficile, or C diff, is a bacterial infection that causes chronic diarrhea in affected patients and can even lead to death. In fact, it...info