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Living with cystic fibrosis while facing homelessness has tested me in every way. However, through it all, I’ve found strength, purpose, and the unshakable belief that I must keep going — for myself ...
Navigating my newborn’s CF diagnosis during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown was one of our hardest moments — yet it was only the beginning of a journey filled with unexpected joy and hope.
An advisory panel of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) said today it did not have sufficient clinical trial data to recommend approval of liprotamase, a non-porcine pancreatic enzyme therapy ...
Proposed cuts to Medicaid and the ACA marketplace will rob people with cystic fibrosis of critical health coverage needed to ...
Nearly 2,000 individuals in the cystic fibrosis community provided insights on the burden of the disease, research priorities ...
After seeing the impact of my sister’s cystic fibrosis throughout my childhood, my late CF diagnosis, while difficult, has brought healing, strength, and a renewed sense of purpose to my life.
When I moved away for college, I was determined to prove that I could manage my CF all by myself. But I was thrown for a loop when I was unexpectedly diagnosed with CF-related diabetes. I thought I ...
Growing up with cystic fibrosis made me stubborn and determined to accomplish everything that I was told I could not do. At my elementary school track and field day, I would make sure to always choose ...
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recently announced that there are almost 40,000 people living with CF in the United States. Not only are there more of us with CF, but we are now living longer. Based on ...
Grief is just one of the many emotions we all experience in life that makes us human. It is not linear. Some days you may feel like the world is caving in around you, while other days the weight is ...
Food insecurity is a long-standing problem in America. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), food-insecure households are those with “limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” ...
The additional funding will support a Phase 2 clinical trial for an inhaled antisense oligonucleotide drug for people with cystic fibrosis who have the splicing mutation 3849+10Kb C-to-T. BETHESDA, Md ...