About one in every 31 hospital patients will pick up an infection in the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research shows that being prescribed an opioid for ...

Initial laboratory investigations revealed leucocytosis, elevated procalcitonin, and elevated D-dimer levels, without evidence of pulmonary embolism. The differential diagnosis included meningitis, ...

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This year in review of 2025 milestones in Clostridioides difficile infection features coverage of research on infection patterns presented at the American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2025 meeting ...

In a review of nearly 120,000 patients, 31% taking opioids developed C. diff, compared to 17% not taking them Opioids may weaken immunity and disrupt healthy gut bacteria, making infection more likely ...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Taking opioids may make some patients more likely to develop a dangerous infection, new research suggests. The infection is called Clostridioides difficile, ...

In a major step towards a precision therapy for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection, researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered how the body's bile acids bind to ...

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the health care system with more than 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and more than 41,000 adult deaths in the United States. Worldwide, more than one ...

Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Heersink School of Medicine say they have identified a bacterial enzyme that may be ...

Peoria's three main hospitals received average or below-average safety grades from The Leapfrog Group. OSF HealthCare St. Francis Medical Center earned a "C" grade, while Carle Health's Methodist and ...