Keto Diet Boosts Lifesaving Antifungal Drug in Mice

DURHAM, N.C. -- For the roughly 150,000 patients with AIDS who come down with a life-threatening infection called fungal meningitis each year, there aren’t many options.

In many parts of the world there’s only one treatment available: a drug called fluconazole that works for less than half of patients. That’s as good as it gets.