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Claire’s Place Foundation, a nonprofit supporting children and families affected by cystic fibrosis (CF), has launched a CF Ambassador & Advisory program — and is now seeking to grow the new initiative. By involving advocates and people living with CF in the foundation’s mission, and amplifying patient voices…

After one year of treatment with Kaftrio, a triple combination of elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor marketed as Trikafta in the U.S., the number of harmful bacteria growing in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) declined significantly, a French study reports. “We observed a significant decrease in…

A Phase 1b trial assessing the safety of RCT2100, Recode Therapeutics’ inhaled therapy candidate for people with cystic fibrosis (CF), has now dosed its first patient in the U.S. The trial already was underway in Europe. RCT2100 is being developed for patients who do not respond to or…

Dosing has begun in a Phase 2 clinical study testing ARCT-032, an experimental inhaled treatment Arcturus Therapeutics is developing for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, including those who don’t benefit from CFTR modulators. The LunairCF study (NCT06747858) is recruiting adults with a diagnosis of CF who are…

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which helps people accept feelings and adjust behavior, was better than supportive psychotherapy for adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) facing mental health challenges, a small study found. In the trial (NCT04114227) sponsored by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and with sessions conducted online,…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of Trikafta for people with cystic fibrosis (CF) ages 2 and older who carry certain mutations that are responsive to the medication. With the approval, 94 additional non-F508del CFTR mutations have been added to the medication’s label,…

A new triple-combination CFTR modulator therapy — vanzacaftor, tezacaftor, and deutivacaftor — has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The therapy, which developer Vertex Pharmaceuticals will market under the name Alyftrek, is indicated for cystic fibrosis (CF) in patients 6 and older who carry…

Infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) have alterations to the nasal microbiome — the community of microbes that live in the nose — in the first year of life, a new study has discovered. These alterations, seen in newborns with CF but not in infants without the genetic disease, may…

Treatment with Trikafta may help ease severe symptoms of anxiety and depression in children with cystic fibrosis (CF), a study in the U.S. suggests. The study, “Mental Health of Pediatric Patients with Cystic Fibrosis after 18 Months on Elexacaftor-Tezacaftor-Ivacaftor Therapy,” was published in Pediatric Pulmonology. The study’s researchers…

About half of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) had breathing difficulties during sleep a year after a lung transplant, although the severity was mild, according to the first study to address the issue. Older age, being male, and having smaller static lung volume, which is when there is no…