Cystic Fibrosis (CF) impacts roughly 35,000 people in the United States. CF results in a mutated form of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), leading to dysfunction of a ...

In patients with CF, pre-transplant PH is associated with improved early post-transplant survival, but with poorer outcomes after 3 years.

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 ...

Kayleen Flanery is the wife of Chaco's Color Manager, Adam. As she navigates life with cystic fibrosis, the pair have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over a 16-year period, those with cystic fibrosis vs. sickle cell disease had a larger improvement in mean age ...

After NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason's son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, it put a face on a little-known disease and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Care for patients with cystic fibrosis has undergone transformative changes over the past decade and serves as an example of how an understanding of the functional consequences of a genetic disease ...