Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chronic respiratory therapies included inhaled antibiotics, hypertonic saline, dornase alfa and oral ...

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that so far has been incurable. Those affected have thick, viscous mucus secretions in their lungs, and lung function diminishes steadily over time. Today, ...

Boehringer Ingelheim is discarding an inhaled gene therapy designed to treat cystic fibrosis (CF) after terminating a phase 1/2 trial. The shuttered study, dubbed Lenticlair 1, failed to produce ...

Hundreds of people with cystic fibrosis are to be offered a new pill which has been hailed as “life changing” by health experts. Modulator drugs work by helping to make the CFTR protein work ...

While gene therapy for cystic fibrosis is still in the research phase, researchers aim to correct the defective gene responsible for the disease. Current research is promising. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is ...

Care for patients with cystic fibrosis has undergone transformative changes over the past decade and serves as an example of how an understanding of the functional consequences of a genetic disease ...

A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...

A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...