I went to high school with, and she wanted to live to graduate. Her senior year she got sick and was hospitalized. The ...

Babies may begin showing signs of cystic fibrosis shortly after they are born. Babies with cystic fibrosis may have prolonged jaundice, trouble passing meconium, and more frequent lung infections.

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 ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — Every single year, it’s estimated that roughly 1,000 people are diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in the United States. Cystic fibrosis, also known as CF, is a genetic condition ...

Breathing disorders are common in the U.S. with conditions like COPD affecting some 7% of the population and asthma affecting another 10%. Digestive conditions like GERD, acid reflux, Celiac disease ...

When Neil Sweezey started working as a clinician in the 1980s, he began to spot a strange pattern in his patients with cystic fibrosis. Girls with the genetic disease seemed to be coming into hospital ...