In a clinical trial led by University of Toronto researchers, an allogeneic stem cell–derived islet therapy (zimislecel) ...

Introduction Cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for around 15% of all HIV-related deaths globally. Conventional treatment courses with amphotericin B require prolonged hospitalisation and are ...

A recent study indicates certain cannabinoids may prove to be a useful tool in the fight against fungal infections.

For years, Martin Pistorius tried desperately to communicate with his parents, who had no idea he was even conscious. Then he heard his mother utter three heartbreaking words ...

Serum cryptococcal antigen titers are positive in up to 99% of cases 7. A positive cryptococcal antigen test is sufficient evidence of cryptococcal infection to initiate therapy until cryptococcal ...

An inspection by the health watchdog, 13 months after Lila’s death, found praised the hospital that sent the five-year-old girl with tonsillitis medication just hours before she died from meningitis ...

The death of five-year-old girl who was sent home from hospital with suspected tonsillitis hours before dying from meningitis was contributed to by neglect, an inquest jury has concluded. Lila ...

Globally, cryptococcal meningitis causes an estimated 152,000 cases and 112,000 deaths annually, and is one of the leading causes of death among people living with HIV in Africa.

- Cryptococcal meningitis is a serious fungal infection causing an estimated 112,000 deaths annually ...

The Los Angeles medical examiner has ruled Guerrero’s manner of death as natural, brought on by AIDS-related complications.

"When Cryptococcus neoformans gets to your central nervous system, it causes life-threatening meningitis. The mortality rate is very high, and it's really hard to treat," says Dr. Dinh.