These drugs helped dramatically improve patients’ quality of life and lung function, resulting in many living years beyond what had been previously expected. Patients with cystic fibrosis now have a ...

Cystic fibrosis affects nearly 40,000 people in the United States, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and while treatments have advanced quickly, there is still no cure.

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After false starts and incremental gains, scientists crack the problem that made breathing impossible. Will answers come fast ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Roughly one in 10 adults with cystic fibrosis also had a diagnosis of heart failure, according to a real-world study of patient medical records reported here. Among the roughly ...

Credit: Getty Images. In individuals with cystic fibrosis, major depression is considered a treatable cause of disability, death, and suffering. Overall, the prognosis of CF is individualized because ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated disease that differs from person to person. An autosomal recessive disorder ...

BOSTON — With the remarkable advances made in therapy over the past decade, many patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) can expect to survive into their 50s and even well beyond. But as patients with CF ...

Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) who did not receive a lung transplant developed cardiovascular disease, kidney problems, and cancer at higher rates than those without CF. Those with CF who did ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by a mutation of the CFTR gene. While there are many hundreds of known mutations, not all of them are currently treatable which means a significant number of CF patients ...

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a ...