Diabetes and Insulin Treatment Adds to CF Burden and Ways Are Needed to Ease It, Study Says
Having to take insulin to treat cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) adds to patient distress and sense of a poorer quality of life, a...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment May Make Antiobiotics More Effective Against P. aeruginosa Infections, S
Exposing cystic fibrosis (CF) patients to high levels of oxygen through hyperbaric oxygen treatment may make Pseudomonas aeruginosa...
People with Rare Diseases Are Humans, Not Commodities
If you keep up with CF research, you may have seen the news about Phase 3 of the triple combination Vertex therapies. In these results,...
Corbus Awarded US Patent Covering Lenabasum as Potential CF and Fibrotic Disease Treatment
Corbus Pharmaceuticals has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering all compositions that comprise lenabasum...
Vertex Wins FDA Approval for Expanded Cystic Fibrosis Treatment
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTX) shares saw a handy gain on Thursday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the...
Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Approved for Use in Children Aged 2 to 5 Years
Officials with the FDA have updated the label of lumacaftor/ivacaftor (Orkambi, Vertex Pharmaceuticals), approving the treatment's use in...
AIT’s Inhaled Nitric Oxide Shows Potential in Fighting Bacterial Infection Prevalent in CF Patients
Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) was shown to be an effective antibacterial agent against Mycobacterium abscessus infection in preclinical...
New Method to Deliver Bacteria-killing Viruses Seen to Resolve Lung Infections in CF Mice
A new therapy which is administered directly into the lung of viruses can kill bacteria, and was shown to be effective in reducing...
Understanding How Bacteria ‘Talk’ Could Hold Key for New CF Treatments, Study Suggests
New research provides insights into how bacteria “talk” to each other in lung infections, which could provide strategies to block these...
Protein structure could unlock new treatments for cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis is a severe hereditary disease of the lung, for which there is currently no cure. The underlying cause of the disease is...
