The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said late Friday (April 4, 2025) that it would not cover the medications under Medicare’s Part D prescription drug coverage. Medicare covers health ...

Only four new antifungal drugs were approved over the last decade. The WHO urges for safer treatments and improved diagnostics, especially in low and middle-income countries, to address this ...

Geneva, Apr 3: The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarms over the increasing threat posed by drug-resistant fungal infections, calling it a growing global health concern. In its first-ever ...

WHO said that fungal diseases, including drug-resistant infections like Candida, are increasingly affecting immunocompromised patients, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, living with HIV, or ...

auris as a fungal pathogen of critical priority. Similarly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that "C. auris is an emerging fungus that can cause severe, often multidrug ...

The antifungal has a backbone structure similar to some other antifungal drugs but has two sugar molecules tacked onto its tail. Those sugars are important for how the molecule kills fungi ...

Over recent months, young people in a Co Down town have been hard at work creating a powerful anti-drug mural, sending a strong message of hope and resilience. The anti-drug initiative by Holywood ...

auris, as it not only is highly resistant to multiple antifungal drugs but also can withstand common hospital disinfectants. “CDC has deemed C. auris as an urgent AR [antimicrobial resistance ...

According to a study by the Manchester Fungal Infection Group, in 2022, approximately 6.5 million people were infected by a pathogenic fungus, and about 3.8 million died as a result – nearly twice as ...

The peptide's unique structure may also help circumvent another common bacterial defense, Travin said. To tie up a ribosome, an antibiotic first needs to get inside the bacterial cell. Many drugs ...

Antifungal agents are substances that inhibit the spread of fungi by killing fungal cells or spores or preventing their growth. Antifungal proteins (AFPs) produced by filamentous ascomycetes are ...

New cases of a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus have been identified in at least two states’ hospital systems. Candida auris, also called C. auris, was first identified in the U.S. in 2016.