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Clostridium difficile or C. Diff by Haveyroo Posted Fri 31 Jul 2009 11:53am , or clostridium difficile infection, is a disease commonly contracted in hospital. C Difficile causes diarrhea and can also cause damage to the lining of the bowels. Generally the symptoms... FROM MSNBC site about C. Diff Scientists cultured the imprint of a health care worker's gloved hand after examining a patient infected with Clostridium difficile, known Read on »

Why You Should Care About Treatment with Monoclonal Antibodies against Clostridium difficile Toxins by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 21 Jan 2010 5:47am The New England Journal of Medicine just published an article regarding using monoclonal antibodies to treat clostridium difficile toxins (called C.diff). This is a very..., arthritis and Crohn's disease. Xolair (omalizumab) is another for asthma. These drugs are not extensively used because of cost, side effects (Remicade can cause serious, life Read on »

Laboratory-Acquired Clostridium difficile by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm Laboratory‐Acquired Clostridium difficile Polymerase Chain Reaction Ribotype 027: A New Risk for Laboratory Workers? Clostridium difficile is not recognized as a pathogen... of C.difficile infection in 2 technicians working with PCR ribotype 027 strains. One case in the Netherlands and one in Spain. Read More… Laboratory‐Acquired Clostridium difficile Read on »

bedtime reading: Clostridium difficile infection: how to deal with the problem by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted Thu 28 May 2009 12:22am All healthcare staff should take personal responsibility for good infection control practice. Doctors and nurses should apply the following mnemonic protocol (site) when managing suspected potential infectious diarrhoea: S Suspect that a case may be infective where there is no clear alternative cause for diarrhoea I Isolate the patient and ... Read on »

Clostridium difficile by flakymn Posted Thu 12 Mar 2009 12:00am , drinking more, anything, and everything to no avail. I just kept feeling sick. So yesterday, I went for some other testing and it seems I have an infection called Clostridium Read on »

MRSA bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infections by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted Wed 09 Dec 2009 12:00am The Health Protection Agency is now publishing quarterly analyses on MRSA and Clostridium difficile rates. These make interesting reading. There has been good progress... but we shouldn’t be complacent. Kidney services remain with the highest rate of all specialities, zero tolerance needs to be maintained. Clostridium difficile infection rates Read on »

New Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service Standards Launched Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatme by Dave W Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 01 Jul 2009 6:47pm The first Service Standards for the care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was launched yesterday at The House of Lords. This was marked by Lord Newton of Braintree as “a major development for people with Colitis and Crohn’s disease”. The simple truth is that patients in the UK, unless they are willing to pay for the latest drugs Read on »

Is Alzheimer’s Disease a Myth? When is Disease a Disease? by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Sun 26 Apr 2009 12:33am

1 Comment I received this abstract from Mark Smith. Mark is Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and a Professor of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University. This is thought provoking. I am going to take a look at the book and write more on this issue down the road. In a recent book [1], Dr. Peter Whitehouse describes Alzheimer’s disease Read on »

Carrier State IS Disease State. Pre-Disease IS Disease. by Dr. Steve Murphy Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:18pm . Did you seethe issue? It is a freakin' Gene Fest I tell ya. Too often we tell people you need 2 bad copies of Gene X to be affected by disease Y. But what if Gene X also caused Disease Z? Do the same rules apply? No wait a second, I thought Gene X only caused Disease Y? Well, we now know that many genes are invloved in diseases other than the traditional Read on »

Diseases And Conditions - Gum Diseases Types by Dr. Syed L. Doctor of Dentistry

Posted Mon 21 Dec 2009 5:09pm Based on condition, surgeon may also require stopping, halting, or minimizing progression of disease. Original post: Diseases And Conditions - Gum Diseases Types Read on »