Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Newborn Screening
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recommends that all states routinely screen for cystic fibrosis (CF) in all newborns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a similar recommendation in October 2004. More than 10 million ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Enzymes
In April 2004, a new rule was issued requiring makers of pancreatic enzyme products to get their drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by 2010. For enzymes to receive FDA approval, companies must test them in clinical trials in ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Airway Clearance
Airway clearance techniques (ACTs) are treatments that help people with cystic fibrosis (CF) stay healthy and breathe easier. ACTs loosen thick, sticky lung mucus so it can be cleared by coughing or huffing. Clearing the airways reduces lung ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Hypertonic Saline
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation funded a study in Australia to find out if inhaling a mist of hypertonic saline twice a day would help people with cystic fibrosis (CF). Hypertonic saline is extra-salty water that is sterile, so there are no germs ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Ibuprofen
Use of ibuprofen in cystic fibrosis (CF) began in 1995 with publication of the results of a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-supported four-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of ibuprofen in people ages 5 to 39 years with CF. The study showed ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - ABPA
Aspergillus species is a fungus that often lives in the airways of adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). When people develop an allergic reaction to aspergillus, it is called Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis. ABPA affects ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Risks of Smoking
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation would like to emphasize the dangers of smoking and the effects it can have on the lungs of people with CF. First, a person with CF cannot safely smoke. Even people with mild CF lung disease have compromised lung ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Drug Development Pipeline
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - 2009, Drug Development Pipeline The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has built a dynamic "pipeline" for the development of more new potential CF therapies than ever before. To treat a complex disease like cystic fibrosis . [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Home
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - 2009, Home REGISTER NOW! Sign up for Buy tickets for this special CF benefit concert on March 15th in Everett, WA. a walk near you. [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - At School
Children with cystic fibrosis can attend school and should be expected to take part fully in school activities, including sports and other extracurricular activities. It is important that teachers are educated about CF and that teachers, parents ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Therapies
Thanks to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-supported research, people with cystic fibrosis (CF) have more therapy options than ever before. There are drugs to help clear the thick CF mucus from airways, reduce inflammation and aerosolized antibiotics ... [... more]
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Clinical Research
Opportunities to help develop new drugs from cystic fibrosis research have never been more promising. More potential therapies are in the CF drug development pipeline today than in the entire history of cystic fibrosis research. While that gives ... [... more]
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