When I was first diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, I wasn’t supposed to live past the age of 8. And now I am expected to be like everyone else — expected to deal with the same responsibilities and have ...

Liver fibrosis is the buildup of scar tissue in the liver, the organ that helps you digest food, store energy, and remove toxins. Liver fibrosis occurs as the organ tries to repair itself from ...

Barrel chest can also occur with cystic fibrosis, severe asthma, and other health issues. Barrel chest looks like someone is taking a deep breath and holding it. The person's chest appears rounded and ...

LONDON - The European Commission has approved a label expansion for Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ (NASDAQ:VRTX) cystic fibrosis medication, KAFTRIO® (ivacaftor ...

With this approval, the indication has been expanded to include all patients ages 2 years and older who have at least one non-class I mutation in the cystic fibrosis conductance regulator (CFTR ...

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has made an up to £1.7million equity investment in Owlstone to develop a breath test for Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) detection in patients with cystic fibrosis. PA, ...

All states should adopt updated screening protocols so more newborns with cystic fibrosis can be diagnosed in the first weeks of life, when interventions can have the greatest benefit, according to ...

Background Exercise and traditional airway clearance techniques (ACTs) are both routinely recommended for people with cystic fibrosis (CF), with some people using exercise as a substitute for ...

Vertex was the first company to produce a medicine tackling the root cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) – mutations in a gene that codes for ion channels in cells that produce mucus, sweat ...

and cystic fibrosis (CF), which dominated the field in the last century (see Genetic Testing Timeline). "Geneticists today are portrayed as soothsayers of the future. But predictive medicine and ...

her mother Mary McLoughlin noticed her skin was very salty – a clue that she had cystic fibrosis. Almost three decades later, Salt is the name of an award-winning short film made by Ward (29 ...

Owlstone Medical ("Owlstone"), the global leader in Breath Biopsy ® for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine, today announced that the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has ...