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Testing patients with just three risk factors upon hospital admission has potential to identify nearly three out of four asymptomatic carriers of C. difficile, according to a new study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-difficile-screening-hospital-admission-potentially.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:37:14 EST news286547825 (HealthDay)—Fecal transplantation—an innovative enema treatment—may help reduce or eliminate symptoms of ulcerative colitis in most children and young adults, according to a small study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fecal-transplant-kids-bowel-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:20:01 EST news285428300 Abnormal gut bacteria in premature babies can be found days before the onset of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) finds new research in BioMed Central's open access journal Microbiome. Babies who later went on to develop NEC had a lower diversity of gut bacteria 4-9 days after birth, increased level of Firmicutes or Enterobacteriaceae, and lacked the Propionibacterium found in healthy babies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-urine-babies-necrotizing-enterocolitis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:00:02 EST news285270034 Scientists used an iPhone and a camera lens to diagnose intestinal worms in rural Tanzania, a breakthrough that could help doctors treat patients infected with the parasites, a study said on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-scientists-iphone-intestinal-worms.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:46:14 EST news282318360 (AP)—Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-clues-survived-china-melamine-scandal.html Medical research Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:10:01 EST news279994939 Pediatric rotavirus vaccination also indirectly protects unvaccinated adults from the highly contagious cause of severe diarrhea and vomiting, suggests a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online. The findings suggest pediatric immunization against the virus may be more cost effective than previously thought, given rotavirus-related health care costs among adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-vaccinating-children-rotavirus-indirectly-adults.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:01 EST news278184322 A suspected norovirus outbreak has killed four people and infected almost 100 others at a hospital in the Japanese city of Yokohama south of Tokyo, officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-norovirus-outbreak-japan-hospital.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:54:03 EST news276072838 Dogs can sniff out Clostridium difficile (the infective agent that is responsible for many of the dreaded "hospital acquired infections") in stool samples and even in the air surrounding patients in hospital with a very high degree of accuracy, finds a study in the Christmas issue published on BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-dogs-accurately-superbug-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:30:07 EST news274642603 Our bodies contain far more microbial genes than human genes. And a new study suggests that just as human DNA varies from person to person, so too does the massive collection of microbial DNA in the intestine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-genetic-fingerprint-belly.html Medical research Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:00:01 EST news273926268 Three top Dutch medical schools are asking thousands of travellers to tropical countries to donate stool samples on return for a study into the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dutch-poop-scientific.html Medical research Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:25:41 EST news271059932 University Teknologi MARA researchers conducted a study on Norovirus (NoV) in lettuces. The virus causes outbreaks of Gastroenteritis among children below age 5 in Malaysia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-malaysia-norovirus-lettuce.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:20:39 EST news266761230 (Medical Xpress) -- Bowel cancer patients whose disease was found through screening have a better chance of beating their disease than those diagnosed after developing symptoms, new research shows today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-bowel-cancer-patients-screening-survive.html Cancer Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:20:38 EST news262419624 (HealthDay) -- Levels of certain gut bacteria and low protein intake may raise children's risk of being obese, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gut-bugs-child-odds-obesity.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 17:50:01 EST news255885088 Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is hard to diagnose as well as treat, but researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered a way of confirming the disorder using stool samples. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-biomarkers-reveal-bowel-syndrome.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 07 May 2012 12:44:24 EST news255613456 Contrary to current convention by which infection with the organism Clostridium difficile is regarded as an infection that is acquired by contact with symptomatic patients known to be infected with C. difficile, these may account for only a minority of new cases of the infection. These findings are important as they indicate that C. difficile infection, which can be fatal especially in older people, may not be effectively controlled by current hospital infection strategies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-transmission-clostridium-difficile-hospitals-contact.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:26:11 EST news247857948 Results of two studies suggest that a new, investigational colorectal cancer screening test developed in a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences Inc. of Madison, Wis., is highly accurate and significantly more sensitive than other noninvasive tests at detecting precancerous tumors (adenomas) and early-stage cancer. These findings have important implications for clinicians and tens of thousands of Americans. Early detection is a key driver of better outcomes for colorectal cancer -- a disease that affects 1 in every 17 persons and is the second-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-greater-accuracy-early-colorectal-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:14:01 EST news246190417 (Medical Xpress) -- Bowel screening reduces the number of deaths from bowel cancer in Scotland by more than 25 per cent, according to research* presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool this week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-bowel-screening-cancer-deaths-cent.html Cancer Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:27:19 EST news240045999