Advances in medicine and technology have made humankind less worried about serious ailments. Many have become complacent, knowing that these illnesses have corresponding treatment options.What people ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known as C. diff—are a serious and persistent problem for patients and hospitals ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine are studying C. diff at multiple levels, from how individual bacterial ...

POO transplants could rejuvenate the ovaries to boost fertility, researchers say. The treatment – which involves placing a ...

I'm 72 years old, and I have been prescribed azathioprine for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I have only mild discomfort in my hands and wrist, which came on suddenly.

This is part 2 in a three-part series on potential harms from taking antibiotics for dental procedures. Part 1 was published yesterday. Part 3 will publish tomorrow. All will be available here. About ...

Dentists wrote more than 2.3 million prescriptions last year for an antibiotic called clindamycin, whose label has carried a ...

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 ...

UPMC Altoona recently received an overall grade of C for this fall from the hospital safety rating organization The Leapfrog Group. The grades are based on statistics related to as many as 32 key ...