When I was a kid, my goal was to play second base for my favorite baseball team, the New York Yankees. When I realized that I couldn’t hit a baseball, arguably the hardest thing to do in any sport, I stopped playing. I also stopped playing basketball about the same…

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center will use Epistemic AI’s platform, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) research tool for the life sciences, to augment its research into cystic fibrosis (CF) and other lung conditions. The Boomer Esiason Foundation (BEF) venture philanthropy initiative helped bring this capability to scientists at Cincinnati…

The Boomer Esiason Foundation is awarding $150,000 in scholarships to students within the cystic fibrosis (CF) community who want to pursue higher education in the U.S. To win one of the 15 grants worth $10,000 each, applications must be submitted on this online form by the April 29…

Students living with cystic fibrosis (CF) and attending or starting college, either at the undergraduate or graduate level, are invited to apply for one of 30 “Sacks for CF” scholarships. The annual program is run by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people with CF. Every…

The 7th edition of Bike 2 Breathe, an initiative aiming to raise funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis (CF), is planned to start on Sept. 21 in Boston. The event was created by Jerry Cahill, a CF patient and ambassador for the Boomer Esiason…

To put it in yoga-speak, instant karma greeted the co-founders of CF Yogi — Myra Giaffoglione of Glenwood, Iowa, and Elaine Malik of Seattle — when they spoke for the first time in the spring of 2018. Malik, 40, and Giaffoglione’s two kids, 7-year-old Jack…

John Pirozzi, a representative of Chelsea Financial Services, will participate in the TCS New York City Marathon to raise money for cystic fibrosis research, the company announced. Pirozzi is specifically running in support of the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a nonprofit group working to connect leaders in medicine…

How well Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), or tailored “talk” therapy that can be delivered via telemedicine, helps people with cystic fibrosis (CF) cope with mental health issues will be the focus of an upcoming study. Supported by a three-year, $960,000 grant from the Boomer Esiason Foundation, the study is…

When it comes to disease “awareness” days, weeks, and months, 2019 is crammed with hundreds of them. May leads the calendar with 37 such designations, calling attention to everything from stuttering and scleroderma to high blood pressure, lupus and skin cancer. Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month also occurs in May. It’s…

Former National Football League quarterback Boomer Esiason, whose son has cystic fibrosis (CF), will be a keynote speaker at the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy’s (NASP) Annual Meeting & Expo. One of the most high-profile figures in the fight against CF, Esiason will speak on the opening…