Highly effective modulator therapy is associated with declining NTM-PD rates in cystic fibrosis as well as improved NTM-PD outcomes in pwCF.

Experts in cloning and stem cell science are reporting that five lung stem cell variants dominate the lungs of patients with advanced cystic fibrosis, and that these variants drive key aspects of CF ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis showed that elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) therapy significantly reduced the Lung Clearance Index (LCI) in children with ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a disease that people can be born with. While there is no cure, people with CF may live well into adulthood if they receive the appropriate treatment and medical monitoring.

Maren Denison, third-year student at the University of Iowa, was in sixth grade when she found out her lung function had dropped to 60 percent as half of her lung had collapsed and was scarred shut.

In patients with cystic fibrosis, CMTX-101, an immune-enabling antibody therapy, lowered four inflammatory biomarkers and ...

Scientists have developed a drug to treat the uncontrolled secretion of mucins in the airways, which causes potentially life-threatening symptoms in millions of Americans with lung diseases. A ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A desperate fight for life for a young woman in Montgomery County. She needs a lung transplant but has been rejected by most hospitals. Follow the tubing to 22-year-old Jen ...

Kirstie Tancock plans her wedding, nearly dying while on a lung transplant list. Feb. 24, 2012— -- Doctors said Kirstie Mills Tancock may not make it to the altar without a new set of lungs. The ...