Gastroenterology

Oral amoxicillin and intravenous ertapenem kill commensal bacteria and increase risk for antibiotic resistance in Clostridium difficile.

Hemospray, from Wilson-Cook Medical, stopped GI bleeding in nearly all patients within 5 minutes of treatment.

An initial high dose or high dose escalation can work best for Clostridium difficile treatment.

FusionVu allows for the fastest and simplest real-time targeting of prostate biopsies while also providing the highest resolution in real-time guidance for them, according to Exact Imaging.

These findings provide health care decision-makers with novel information about the allocation of scarce resources relating to Clostridium difficile.

Evidence has also proven that C. difficile can be found in vegetables.

Clostridium difficile could be mutating to transfer from pets to humans.

Patients using statins had a 4.3% infection rate compared with a 7.8% rate for those not taking statins, concluding that statins may be associated with a 20% risk reduction.