With continual advances in treatment, more people with cystic fibrosis (CF) are surviving well into adulthood and by 2040,…
Articles by Marisa Wexler, MS
Women and girls with cystic fibrosis (CF) who are being treated with antibiotics due to a pulmonary exacerbation tend…
CFTR modulators, a highly effective therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF), do not appear to affect fertility outcomes for men using them, data…
Note: This story was updated Nov. 9 to note that experiments done with Sionna’s CFTR modulators used a different investigational…
Exposure to tobacco smoke may reduce the effectiveness of Kalydeco (ivacaftor), a CFTR modulator that is widely approved to…
A novel scoring system may be used to classify the severity of lung disease among children with cystic fibrosis…
Women with cystic fibrosis (CF) have different experiences with sexual and reproductive health than their peers without the disease,…
The overall protein profile in the airway is altered toward a more pro-inflammatory state in people with cystic fibrosis…
A novel gene-editing treatment platform corrected the mutation that causes cystic fibrosis (CF) in multiple tissues throughout the bodies of…
Anemia is common among lung transplant recipients, and people with cystic fibrosis (CF) are at more than four times…