In 1938, Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen described a new disease that caused the deaths of children she treated. She called it cystic fibrosis (CF). CF is a genetic condition that occurs due to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study reported elevated adjusted rates for four non-pulmonary complications in those with vs. without cystic ...

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In patients with cystic fibrosis, CMTX-101, an immune-enabling antibody therapy, lowered four inflammatory biomarkers and ...

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ...

Devon Angerman, at 23, must consider herself a middle-aged woman. Though as healthy looking as any other 23-year-old, the Sioux City woman suffers from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that gives ...

A new study using a pig model of cystic fibrosis (CF) suggests that low levels of a growth promoting hormone at or before birth may contribute to growth defects in patients with CF. The study, led by ...

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Cystic Fibrosis Registry Global Harmonization Group, including the CF Foundation, published in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis updated data on the impact of ...

Cystic fibrosis could affect anyone, of any ethnicity. But many medical professionals are still incorrectly taught that CF is a white disease. For decades, it has been overlooked in people of color -- ...