Hawken Miller, features writer —

To put it in yoga-speak, instant karma greeted the co-founders of CF Yogi — Myra Giaffoglione of Glenwood, Iowa, and Elaine Malik of Seattle — when they spoke for the first time in the spring of 2018. Malik, 40, and Giaffoglione’s two kids, 7-year-old Jack…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a vast government bureaucracy, employs about 17,500 people and had a budget of $5.7 billion in 2019. Yet even with its enormous resources, the FDA these days relies more and more on patients to…

Cystic fibrosis (CF) advocate, author, Olympic torchbearer, and motivational speaker Andy Lipman didn’t get involved in the CF community — even though he himself had the disease — until a friend had him volunteer in a softball charity event.