Monsoon season brings a surge in fungal and bacterial skin infections due to humidity, affecting all ages, especially those ...

It can take up to a year for toenail fungus to completely resolve with treatment, and it can come back without proper ...

A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School has admitted in court to stealing and trafficking human remains, including brains, skin, hands and even faces, from donated cadavers meant for ...

University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent antimicrobial properties against a pathogen responsible for a half-million ...

While mushrooms are traditionally consumed, one can apply snow fungus for radiant and youthful skin. Let’s see 5 reasons why you should apply products rich in snow fungus on the skin.

The findings, published on April 14 in Current Biology, highlight how the skin-dwelling fungus Malassezia metabolizes oils and fats to produce fatty acids with targeted antimicrobial effects. These ...

They provide much faster and more sensitive fungal detection than culture-based methods. Recent studies highlight the areas of great interest for enhancing fungal detection, including the ...

Susan Bard, MD, is a board-certified general and procedural dermatologist with the American Board of Dermatology and a Fellow of the American College of Mohs Surgery.

It's not quite as bad as The Last of Us. But progress has been achingly slow in developing new antifungal vaccines and drugs.