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Medscape Medical News highlights study by WVU/CAMC colleagues on Clostridium difficile and opioid exposure

Monica Chowdhry, PGY2 with the WVU Health Sciences Charleston Campus Department of Internal Medicine/Charleston Area Medical Center, attended the 2018 National Digestive Disease Week held in Washington, DC on June 2-5 where she presented a research study titled, “Impact of Opioid Use on Clostridium difficile Infection at Charleston Area Medical Center”. During the meeting, she was interviewed by Medscape Medical News and was featured under the News Perspectives section of the list serve publication, headlined as “Clostridium difficile patients on opioids fare much worse.” https://medscape.com/viewarticle/897532