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Developmental stage biopharmaceutical company Parion Sciences recently announced that the National Institutes of Health‘s grants over the next 5 years in support of pulmonary research programs using their novel pipeline treatments will reach a total of about $15.6 million. These grants have gone to the University of North Carolina,…

Australian specialist pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis has just announced it has successfully enrolled the first participant in an international Phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate their lead pipeline product for cystic fibrosis, Bronchitol® (mannitol). Pharmaxis continues to develop novel treatments for chronic respiratory disorders, such as asthma, pulmonary…

A new study on the impact of Cystic Fibrosis carrier status in in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures and outcomes, entitled “Female cystic fibrosis mutation carriers and assisted reproductive technology: Does carrier status affect reproductive outcomes?“ was recently announced by Celmatix, a New York City-based company…

Santa Fe, New Mexico based startup Avisa Pharma Inc. is a clinical stage company established in 2010 to develop and commercialize a new technology invented by Dr. Graham Timmins, Avisa’s Co-founder/Chief Science Officer and a University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy Associate Professor, who was assisted by colleagues from UNM’s School…

Drug discovery company Proteostasis Therapeutics has completed the recruiting process for its Inaugural Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Advisory Board, a new board appointed by the company to act as a strategic resource responsible for the selection of upcoming studies of its compounds for treating cystic fibrosis. The company is dedicated…

A new study on Staphylococcus aureus infection and cystic fibrosis (CF) entitled “Counteracting suppression of CFTR and voltage-gated K+ channels by a bacterial pathogenic factor with the natural product tannic acid“ was published on eLife by Yajamana Ramu, part of Dr. Zhe Lu’s group…

McElhattan, Pennsylvania-based Nutek Disposables is conducting a voluntary product recall on the United States for their baby wipes, due to a report of bacteria in some of the packages, which may be dangerous for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in particular. The wipes were manufactured under the brand names of Cuties,…

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently reviewed products containing the antibiotics colistin or colistimethate sodium (known as polymyxins) and recommended alterations to product sheet information to include safety and the most updated information when applied to treating infections that demonstrated to be resistant to other standard antibiotics. This update…

Vertex Pharmaceuticals‘ Ivacaftor (Kalydeco), a breakthrough medication for the treatment of patients suffering from a specific gene mutation of cystic fibrosis, has been approved to be added to the list of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in Australia, and will become available on December 1st, as announced by Australian…

An Optical Society release notes that while people might typically regard mucus as an “icky bodily secretion best left wrapped in a tissue,” for a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “snot is an endlessly fascinating subject.” The team has developed a way to use…