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...Winning bid of an American restaurateur for a truffle at a charity auction last week, the most ever paid for one of the fungal delicacies...
...FUNGAL FEVER Lethal fungus infections, once rare in the developed world, are spreading because of the rise of AIDS, chemotherapy and organ transplants. Antifungal drugs, however, often have terrible side effects. A new study shows that the drug voriconazole is more effective and results in fewer complications than standard treatments...
...every sniffle and sneeze, even when the source of the problem was a virus. Antibiotics have been recklessly prescribed for ear and even sinus infections, many of which, as Mayo Clinic researchers recently noted, are not due to bacteria at all but to the immune system's response to fungal infections...
...turning nasty--seeping into the bloodstream and invading vital organs. Lately they've been doing that more and more, thanks to increased travel (which exposes people to fungi for which they have no immunity) and to immunosuppressant drugs (which leave patients vulnerable to what would otherwise be innocuous fungal infections). "The kind of thing that used to grow on bread in the kitchen is now causing life-threatening illness," says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, head of fungal and bacterial diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Other commonly confused drugs, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, include Flomax (used to treat an enlarged prostate) and Fosamax (osteoporosis), Adderall (attention-deficit disorder) and Inderal (high blood pressure or heart problems), Lamisil (fungal infections) and Lamictal (epilepsy), Prilosec (acid reflux) and Prozac (depression...