Opioids affect both the gut and the immune system, said Summer Thompson, an assistant professor studying gut-brain ...

Taking opioids may make some patients more likely to develop a dangerous infection, new research suggests. The infection is ...

New research from the University of Georgia suggests that opioid use could make patients more vulnerable to infections.

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ATLANTA -- Mortality rates from Clostridioides difficile-related infections have fallen steadily since 2016, but the condition continues to take an uneven lethal toll based on sex, demographics, and ...

As the effectiveness of antibiotics meant to fight the deadly superbug Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, wanes, a research team at the University of Houston is seeing positive results of a new ...

SEATTLE, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a stealthy threat. It infects more than 500,000 people in the United States each year, and kills up to 30,000. It is a ...

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 ...

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. IMPACT: The results ...

The pathogen C. diff - the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea - can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a ...

Pfizer hosted a discussion with sell-side analysts to provide an update on one of the vaccine pipeline items – a second-generation Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) vaccine effort in Phase 2.