SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Bausch & Lomb Inc. said after the closing bell on Friday it has launched an investigation to determine the extent and cause of an increase in a rare fungus infection ...

To epidemiologist Dr. Ulysses Wu, it would be akin to “bad teenagers throwing a house party in your body.’’ That imagery, depicting a circumstance that often leads to negative consequences, was one Wu ...

A new superbug threat is spreading around the world. The culprit: microscopic fungal spores that live in and on human bodies and in the dirt and air. Torrence Irvin believes the life-threatening fungi ...

Valley fever is an infection spread by a fungus that grows in the top few inches of soil in parts of the American West. It is ...

A vaccine that shields mice from yeast infections could eventually protect humans against a broad range of deadly fungi.

Candida auris, a deadly fungal infection, is spreading in Illinois and Indiana, part of a larger U.S. increase. Although first identified in Japan in 2009, the first U.S. case was reported in 2016.