The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with U.S. Jaclean Inc. regarding claims of illegal distribution or sale of unregistered and misbranded disinfectants and other ...

The EPA said in all, the company imported and distributed 23 unregistered pesticides plus the two misbranded pesticide devices, including purported disinfectant or antimicrobial health products.

The EPA said in all, the company imported and distributed 23 unregistered pesticides plus the two misbranded pesticide devices, including purported disinfectant or amtimicrobial health products.

A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff.

The EPA approved the use of phosphogypsum in some road construction in 2020 under the Trump administration. But it later withdrew that decision in 2021 under the Biden administration, describing ...

diff infection and to prevent recurrence. It was the first FDA-approved oral microbiome therapy ... ineffective against dormant spore forms of C. diff, which can germinate and grow after the ...

The portion of our nervous systems responsible for the "fight or flight" response can shape the severity of potentially deadly C. difficile infections, new research from the University of Virginia ...

With no approved vaccines to date, C. diff causes nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the US, and recurrent infections with the bacterium make up 10%-15% of all hospital-treated infections.

“C. diff is a really challenging pathogen,” said lead author Joseph Zackular, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Penn. “This vaccine is kind of a really nice proof of ...