DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing ...

Clostridioides difficile is an uncommon but quite serious cause of diarrhea, and it is often associated with antibiotics.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing diarrhea on and off. I initially spoke to my general physician, and he ...

The antibiotic EVG7, developed in Leiden, has proven capable of fighting the dangerous gut bacterium C. difficile with only a minimal dose. What's more, the bacterium is far less likely to return, a ...

SAN DIEGO -- Administering fecal microbiota via colonoscopy instead of rectally prevented recurrence of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) for up to 2 months with no major safety signals, according to a ...

1 Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India. 2 Internal Medicine, Government Medical College, Amritsar, India. 3 Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Allegiance, Jackson, USA.

FAECAL microbiota transplant (FMT) and emerging microbiome therapeutics show clear superiority over antibiotics for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (rCDI), according to a new systematic ...

C. difficile infection recurrence rates were numerically lower with vancomycin than with placebo, though the difference was not significant. However, the results could be clinically meaningful, an ...

Clinical cure and no disease recurrence within 60 days for 66.7 percent in FMT group, 61.2 percent in vancomycin group. (HealthDay News) — Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) could be considered as ...

Clinical cure and no disease recurrence within 60 days for 66.7% in FMT group, 61.2% in vancomycin group. Frederik Emil Juul, M.D., Ph.D., from Oslo University Hospital in Norway, and colleagues ...

Clinical cure and no disease recurrence within 60 days without additional treatment was observed in 66.7% of 51 patients receiving fecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridioides difficile ...

FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A fecal transplant performs as well as antibiotics in treating people with a bacterial infection that can cause life-threatening diarrhea, a new study says.