In their minds, cystic fibrosis patients are cycling through an African safari, exploring the animals and environment.
Articles by Brad Dell
“Cystic fibrosis is a genetic lung disease.” That’s an accurate statement, sure. But it doesn’t reflect the diversity…
Hanging from the wall of Vertex Pharmaceutical’s Boston office is a massive set of sculpted lungs — pink and red,…
I’ve gone through life afraid of numbers. Not just math, although I’m really terrible at that. Numbers…
I walk through a football stadium. I catch a whiff of the cotton candy and am smacked…
Cystic fibrosis care has seen such rapid advances that the average CF patient has likely seen a dramatic evolution in…
Emily Lyons hasn’t stopped thinking about her sister Julia since she passed away from cystic fibrosis in 2011…
I won’t lie. The first two months after my double-lung transplant were rough. I wasn’t in much…
Last week I wrote about how lung transplantation isn’t the Boogeyman I once thought it…
“There was a girl I was very interested in,” says Gunnar Esiason. “We were hanging out and, it’s…