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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 ...
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.
Nearly 2,000 individuals in the cystic fibrosis community provided insights on the burden of the disease, research priorities ...
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 ...
Accepting my son’s cystic fibrosis diagnosis has been a year-long journey for our family. I learned there is more to motherhood with a chronically ill child than meets the eye. My son's cystic ...
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 ...
Becoming a parent for the first time is scary. Becoming a parent for the first time during a pandemic is really scary. Becoming a parent for the first time -- during a pandemic -- to a child with ...
Please join me as I walk you through the journey that has been my life with cystic fibrosis and the survivor's guilt that's been its partner in crime. When I was 10, my mom received a phone call about ...