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Don’t Overlook Importance of Sleep Hygiene, CF Experts Advise

People with cystic fibrosis (CF), like their healthy counterparts, often neglect sleep. But that can lead to problems down the road, warned three CF experts at the 2019 North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Nashville. More than half of all CF patients have sleep complaints, said pulmonologist Eliot…

CFF Programs Strive to Reduce Patients’ Isolation

Oregon retiree Carol Birch, 59, considers herself especially lucky to have made it this far in life. “I’ve never felt that I fit the typical role of someone with cystic fibrosis (CF),” Birch told attendees at the 2019 North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC) in Nashville, Tennessee. Diagnosed at…

CFF Offers Emotional Send-off to Retiring CEO Preston Campbell

Preston W. Campbell III, MD, recently bid farewell as president and CEO of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) in Nashville — the same city where he began his long association with the disease 30 years ago as a pediatric pulmonologist at Vanderbilt University’s Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Care Center.