Clostridium difficile

The new treatment provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help patients.

Infections with Clostridium difficile can be difficult to treat and life-threatening. Once a problem seen mainly in health care facilities, the infections are now occurring often in the community.

Matthew Gable held on for 10 weeks after his mom’s water broke at less than halfway through the pregnancy.Without amniotic fluid, his lungs didn’t fully…

Talk about alternative treatments.Fecal transplants, still considered experimental, are being tried at a dozen hospitals around the country for stubborn…