When patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) breathe in small amounts of bile, some bacterial species switch to a chronic infection…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
Increasing the pH balance of the acidic lung surface liquid found in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, using an inhaled alkaline…
Unmet Published Guidelines for CF-Related Diabetes Can Be ‘Incompletely Successful’, Study Shows
Because some cystic Fibrosis (CF) clinics often fail to follow published guidelines for the screening and care of diabetes in CF…
Goiter and hypothyroidism — conditions linked to thyroid gland problems — are no longer major concerns for patients with cystic fibrosis…
ProQR Therapeutics is set to release results from a study on the effect of the investigational drug QR-010 on nasal…
Silencing a gene involved in the processing of the mutant CFTR protein in cystic fibrosis (CF) improved folding and increased…
Pulmonary exacerbations have a negative impact on the general health-related quality of life in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), a study…
Two Texas surgical teams recently performed an extremely rare, lungs-and-liver double organ transplant at the University of Texas (UT)…
A Chicago Medical School review explored the scientific evidence behind three natural compounds — genistein, curcumin, and resveratrol — often…
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with a fungal infection caused by Scedosporium apiospermum may have a clinical presentation resembling plastic bronchitis. A case…