December 19, 2014,
News & Features
The bacterium, Clostridium difficile, has become a menace in hospitals and nursing homes.
Infants given formula containing the bacteria that aid healthy digestion had roughly half as many bouts of fever and diarrhea as babies given regular formula, a new study reports.
Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
Two drugs approved for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome may or may not work for the 45 million Americans who suffer from the disorder.
A type of bacteria that causes virulent diarrhea in the elderly has been spreading through hospitals in Quebec and Alberta and may have contributed to the deaths of 100 patients in one institution alone in the past 18 months, medical authorities said Sunday. The spread of an infectious illness in...
Determining the complete DNA sequence of a single species has become almost commonplace. It has been done for humans, mice, rice plants and a host of microbes, among others. Now some scientists are moving to a more audacious challenge, sequencing ''metagenomes,'' the DNA of entire ecosystems. The...
Rick awakened at 2 a.m. with severe gastrointestinal distress, passed out on the way to the bathroom and spent the next two days in bed. The problem, he surmised, was food poisoning from the dozen raw oysters he had eaten that evening at a three-star restaurant. But because he never saw a doctor and...
PEOPLE who ate chunks of a genetically engineered potato developed defenses against a diarrhea germ, raising hopes that doctors could one day vaccinate people with fruits and vegetables instead of needles. The specialized potato contained a protein that activated the immune systems of volunteers...
WHEN Dr. David Acheson and Dr. Gerald Keusch at Tufts New England Medical Center sent their laboratory assistants out to the grocery store to buy hamburger one day last summer, it was not for a lab cookout. They were checking out a new diagnostic test they and others had developed for a...
TWO studies have provided surprising new information about a common enemy of children all over the world: rotaviruses. Unavoidable even in countries with good sanitation and clean water, rotaviruses infect virtually every child within the first few months or years of life, causing diarrhea and...
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