The Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF) and our amazing group of advocates and friends continues to build momentum for policy change in the Buckeye State. On Wednesday, June 14, our Executive Director Christian John Lillis, was featured in a panel discussion on multi-drug resistant organisms, antimicrobial stewardship and Clostridium difficile at …
On Saturday, June 3rd, the family of Judy Dexter held its fourth annual Toss to Stop C. diff Loss Memorial Picnic and Cornhole Tournament. With nearly 100 guests and many more donors, this year’s event was the most financially successful to date raising more than $12,000! The first three years, …
Cross-posted from Oh Dear Drea I get emails everyday about C. diff. Every day. More and more people are getting it. More and more people are suffering with it, dying from it, and many, like me, are searching everywhere possible to learn how to recover from it. With almost every …
Written by Trish Pooley It was 1846 when Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor at Vienna General Hospital, discovered how hand washing could save lives. Social medicine considers him to be one of the early “physician scientists.” Practicing in hospital maternity wards, he became intent upon understanding why so many women …
