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Colon cancer is linked to changes in the human gut microbes.

According to the report, Alabama hospitals performed better than the national average in three of four key infection ...

What Is Proctitis and How Does It Compare to UC? Proctitis is inflammation of the rectum, the last part of the large intestine that connects the colon to the anus. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of ...

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 ...

Cases of deadly E. coli food poisoning surged by nearly 80 per cent in a year, new official figures show — with six Britons confirmed to have died from the infection. The UK Health Security Agency ...

Alabama hospitals performed better than the national level in three major infection categories in 2024, according to a new report from the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH).