Atypical cystic fibrosis is a mild form of cystic fibrosis. People with this type of cystic fibrosis can experience symptoms that come and go or that are less severe than those people with classic ...
Genetic testing plays an important role in cystic fibrosis screening and diagnosis. It can help determine if a person has cystic fibrosis or carries gene mutations that cause it. Other tests can also ...
Breathing disorders are common in the U.S. with conditions like COPD affecting some 7% of the population and asthma affecting another 10%. Digestive conditions like GERD, acid reflux, Celiac disease ...
They call it the Purge. You have experienced, in a modest way, something like it in the waning days of a bad cold, when your lungs finally expel their accumulated gunk. The rattle in your chest quiets ...
Protein clustering mechanism on the cell membrane presents a new therapeutic target for cystic fibrosis. A new study from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals the process underlying ...
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects roughly 40,000 Americans. The condition is caused by a mutation in the patient's cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, ...
Pulmonary exacerbations are common in children with cystic fibrosis during the first 3 years of life and are associated with ...
Universal screenings for the inherited disease promised to get babies diagnosed and treated sooner. But they still miss some children of color. By Liz Szabo By the time Rena Barrow-Wells gave birth to ...
Today (September 11), the Lasker Foundation announced this year’s award winners. Jesús (Tito) González, an ion channel biologist formerly at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Paul Negulescu, a cell biologist at ...