Why Asthma Still Kills - Review of Deaths From Asthma

Today is World Asthma Day so it is appropriate that we talk about the recent publication 'The National Review of Asthma Death…

New Type of Antifungal Drug: Low Toxicity/High Potential?

In common with many antimicrobial drugs, microbes resistant to antibiotic/antifungal drugs are being found with increasing regula…

Fungi in space

Fungal cultures, obtained over several decades, have been studied in terms of their appearance and characteristics. Space-flight,…

Antifungal Therapy Improved Outcomes for Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

The latest research carried out at the National Aspergillosis Centre in Manchester, UK with the aid of over a hundred patients ha…

False Positive Galactomannan Test after Ice-Pop Ingestion

An unusual case history has recently been presented in the New England Journal for Medicine. A patient was given a stem cell tran…

More oral amphotericin developments

We featured a story a few months back which was based on the development of a variant of amphotericin which could be taken by mou…

First trial for new antifungal begins

It has been mentioned elsewhere in this blog that the search for new antifungals is important and ongoing. Particularly important…

A New Weapon against Aspergillosis

People suffering from an aspergillosis infection are treated with drugs designed to stop or kill the invading fungus i.e. antifun…