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In the 1980s, life expectancy for persons with cystic fibrosis (CF) was just 12 years in the US, and around 20 in Canada. However, the median age of survival for Canadian CF patients continues on an upward trend, and is currently estimated to be 50.9 years of age…

A low-cost, disposable breath analysis device that a person with cystic fibrosis could use at home along with a smartphone to immediately detect a lung infection, much like the device police use to gauge a driver’s blood alcohol level, may soon be a reality. Such a device could provide timely…

Case Western Reserve University faculty and clinicians are among those this weekend commemorating the discovery 25 years ago of the transmembrane conductance Cystic Fibrosis gene (CFTR) and reflecting on subsequent treatment advances that stemmed from the genetic breakthrough a quarter-century ago. The discovery was acheived in 1989 by a…

App Developer Brian King’s “My Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis” is a Cystic Fibrosis app that is 100 percent designed, developed, and programmed by a CFer. King says the app’s mission is to provide the CF community with a useful tool and resource to help fight Cystic Fibrosis, in the hope…

Melissa Benoit receiving treatment, circa 1983 – Image Credit: The Hospital For Sick Children In the 1980’s, life expectancy for persons with CF was just 12 years in the US, and around 20 in Canada. Melissa Benoit spent the first month of her life in the neonatal…

The CLS Synchrotron — Wikipedia Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada working with the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron have developed a new imaging technique that reveals a heretofore unknown immune system component of the in the lungs — a discovery that could…

Radio Free Europe — Radio Liberty’s Claire Bigg reports that robust protests by advocacy groups have persuaded Russia to lift its ban on Western nutritional supplements badly needed by patients suffering from a range of chronic diseases including cystic fibrosis (CF). Earlier this month, Russia banned imports of what…

Scientists at Melbourne, Australia based Monash University have developed a new x-ray imaging system that enables researchers to see ‘live’ how effective treatments are for cystic fibrosis. Published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, entitled,…

San Francisco based KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on Monday released an update on the status of its KB001-A monoclonal antibody development program, including news that multinational Sanofi Pasteur, which had been collaborating with Kalobios on the KB001-A R&D program, is pulling out of the partnership. KaloBios will regain all…

Findings of new study led by Martina Gentzsch, PhD, at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute in Chapel Hill, N.C. could help drug developers improve compounds designed to correct CFTR proteins in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. In lab experiments…