Small Oregon Study is Just Latest To Cast Doubt on Mold 'Toxicity'

A small study which took a look at claims of mold-related illness - and came away skeptical - has received wide exposure recently in major media outlets. Just a quick search revealed that Fox and CBS and other major news outlets reported on the 50-patient analysis by Oregon Health & Science University physicians Barzin Khalili and Emil J. Bardana that appeared in the September 2005 issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (Ann. Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2005 Sep;95[3]:239-246).

What Drs. Khalili and Bardana found in their retrospective review was that most cases of mold-related illness, or what they termed …