Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In January, the CDC warned physicians to be cautious when prescribing topical antifungals in light of the recent ...

While death and disease from common fungal infections are largely a rare and uncommon occurrence in modern medicine, doctors are eyeing the spread of a recently discovered strain. "It started out as a ...

Lee’s work doesn’t just involve benchwork. He says academic medicine — involving patient care, teaching and research — has ...

The potentially deadly fungus has infected over 7,000 people in the U.S. so far this year, and is resistant to many drugs.

Fungi that infect the lungs can take weeks to diagnose. "Killer fungus" may sound like science fiction, but fungal infections kill an estimated 1.7 million people worldwide per year -- more than ...

“We don’t have good surveillance for fungal infections,” Dr. Chiller said. “A lot of our information is piecemeal or is institutional. We don’t have a national fungal surveillance system. So it’s ...

Among the minor ills that bring discomforts to man, few are so persistent or so hard to treat as fungus infections—the cause of ringworm (including the stubborn ringworm of the nails), barber’s itch, ...

A vaginal yeast infection is an overgrowth of fungus in the vagina that causes symptoms like itchiness, soreness, and discharge. Also known as vaginal candidiasis, vulvovaginal candidiasis, or ...

Antibiotics like amoxicillin can increase your risk of developing a yeast infection. This happens because antibiotics can ...

Fungus can do a lot for us — make bread, make beer and cure infections, in the case of penicillin. But when the fungus infects us, well, that’s not nearly as much fun as beer. From your head to your ...

A fungal skin infection occurs when a fungus (such as yeast or mold) grows and creates a reaction on your skin surface. Fungi (the plural of “fungus”) spread by releasing particles called spores into ...