http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)— A drug regimen containing two powerful antifungal medicines—amphotericin B and flucytosine—reduced the risk of dying from cryptococcal meningitis by 40 percent compared to treatment with amphotericin B alone, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-combo-therapy-fungal-meningitis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:16:52 EST news284231766 Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin (TBT) – which was used in marine antifouling paints and is used as an antifungal agent in some paints, certain plastics and a variety of consumer products – can lead to obesity for multiple generations without subsequent exposure, a UC Irvine study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fetal-exposure-tributyltin-linked-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:42:02 EST news278268114 A Penn- and MIT-led team explained how rapamycin, a drug that extends mouse lifespan, also causes insulin resistance. The researchers showed in an animal model that they could, in principle, separate the effects, which depend on inhibiting two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-duality-longevity-drug-rapamycin.html Medical research Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:00:10 EST news252247900