I've always approached new medications with caution, concerned about potential side effects. That hesitation is why it took me several weeks to finally try Pulmozyme for the first time.

Food insecurity is a long-standing problem in America. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), food-insecure households are those with “limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” ...

Growing up with cystic fibrosis made me stubborn and determined to accomplish everything that I was told I could not do. At my elementary school track and field day, I would make sure to always choose ...

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recently announced that there are almost 40,000 people living with CF in the United States. Not only are there more of us with CF, but we are now living longer. Based on ...

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is funding the development of a gene editing therapy that is designed to use ReCode’s tissue-specific delivery vehicle to transport gene editing cargo to the lung cells ...

Nosis Bio, an inaugural winner of the Foundation’s Golden Ticket Competition, receives funding to further explore design of novel ligands, which are specialized molecules that could help more precise ...

It was the spring of 2008 when my world flipped upside down. I was 13 years old and just finishing up the 8th grade. I felt like a relatively “normal” kid, despite being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis ...

As someone with cystic fibrosis, I am used to being diagnosed with a variety of health conditions. Most of the time, these diagnoses come after I have a physical characteristic I need assessed and I ...

I've been thinking of my life after Trikafta as a series of pros and cons ... like on “Friends” when Ross made a list to figure out why he should/should not date Rachel. Ross needed to decide if he ...

Today, Vertex released positive preliminary clinical trial results for the potential triple-combination therapy VX-445 plus tezacaftor/ivacaftor (Symdeko®). Positive results were announced today from ...

In the past decade or so, I've learned that when people in the CF community find out I'm an opera singer, or that I don't use a vest as an airway clearance technique (ACT), they often assume that I ...