Treating Fungal Infection in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Can Harm Lungs, Study Reports

Treating patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), infected with the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, with antifungal therapies may contribute to the adaptation and resistance of this microorganism, and exacerbate lung infection, a new study reported. This finding, in a report by medical researchers in the Netherlands, underscores the…

Novel Method Developed For Localized Drug Delivery to the Lung in Cystic Fibrosis, Other Lung Diseases

In a paper entitled “Targeted delivery of liquid micro volumes into the lung” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Columbia University in New…