In 1938, Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen described a new disease that caused the deaths of children she treated. She called it cystic fibrosis (CF). CF is a genetic condition that occurs due to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study reported elevated adjusted rates for four non-pulmonary complications in those with vs. without cystic ...

Breathing disorders are common in the U.S. with conditions like COPD affecting some 7% of the population and asthma affecting ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over a 16-year period, those with cystic fibrosis vs. sickle cell disease had a larger improvement in mean age ...

Devon Angerman, at 23, must consider herself a middle-aged woman. Though as healthy looking as any other 23-year-old, the Sioux City woman suffers from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that gives ...

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Cystic Fibrosis Registry Global Harmonization Group, including the CF Foundation, published in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis updated data on the impact of ...

Cystic fibrosis could affect anyone, of any ethnicity. But many medical professionals are still incorrectly taught that CF is a white disease. For decades, it has been overlooked in people of color -- ...