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Montreal-based biotech startup Laurent Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced Wednesday that the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has begun enrolling patients in an investigator-initiated clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of a novel oral formulation of Fenretinide in adult subjects with Cystic…

A new study led by a team in the Research Institute at Columbus, Ohio based Nationwide Children’s Hospital and published in the journal PLoS One this month, suggests that boosting a key immune process called autophagy a natural process in which proteins and other cell materials are degraded…

Increasingly in the cystic fibrosis community, fundraising walking and running events have become a popular, effective means of raising awareness about the disease and supporting ongoing research efforts to bolster drug development for next-generation CF treatments. No other group has utilized this sort of fundraising event better than the…

A group of academic professionals at Scotland’s Stirling University have taken it upon themselves to call on the family members of children diagnosed and living with cystic fibrosis (CF) to take part in the production of a new film that hopes to raise awareness on the stresses of physiotherapy…

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. announced unexpected, yet encouraging results of their product ataluren. The biopharmaceutical company focuses on developing small-molecule drugs that target post-transcriptional control processes to alter protein production. Ataluren is PTC’s investigational new drug designed to restore protein function in cystic fibrosis patients with a nonsense mutation (nmCF)…

Complimentary therapeutic approaches are nothing if not controversial in conventional medicine and mainstream organizations offering information and support for those afflicted with particular diseases. This leaning toward cautious conservatism is commendable, as there is usually plenty of unsubstantiated advice around — often associated with the sale of scientifically unproven…

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an international biotech company that has recently been making significant progress in clinical phase research geared towards combating cystic fibrosis, has just announced that they will be presenting during the UBS Global Healthcare Conference. The conference is scheduled to take place at the Sheraton New York Hotel…

San Diego State University postdoctoral researcher Katrine Whiteson, Ph. D. has found that a molecule previously linked to lung injuries in factory workers producing microwave popcorn might also play an important role in microbial lung infections suffered by people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The molecule, known as 2,3-butanedione, which tastes “buttery” and…

The importance of a balanced diet has been highlighted in treatment strategies for several diseases for improving prognoses in patients. The subject of diet and how it affects body composition in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is the focus of recent research on how a balanced diet can have…

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) has just given its sought-after Quality Care Award for 2012-2013 to The Cystic Fibrosis Center of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Established back in 2008, the Foundation’s Quality Care Award served to give due recognition to cystic fibrosis (CF) centers that…