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Apr 14, 2022
3 min

AbbVie Celebrates 30th Anniversary of CF Scholarship with Opening of Application Period for Students

Student with a text book with other students on their desktop computers in the background

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Aug 23, 2021
3 min

ABBVIE Scholarship Awards Voting

AbbVie Kicks Off Two-Week Public Voting Open for the 2021 AbbVie CF Scholarship Thriving Student Awards

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Jun 1, 2021
3 min

Research corner:Cystic Fibrosis Phage Therapy Study at Yale

Phages are specialized viruses that kill specific bacterial strains. They are found abundantly in the environment and are the natural predat

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Apr 7, 2021
3 min

Research Corner: Alcresta’s RELiZORB is the only FDA approved enteral feeding EnZyme

How does RELiZORB work? Inside the cartridge is a digestive enzyme called lipase, which is attached to the small white beads that you can s

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Mar 11, 2021
4 min

Research Corner: Encala™ - A new medical food for treating malabsorption

There is a new product called Encala, created by Envara Health, which is the first medical food formulated specifically to help people with

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Jan 25, 2021
5 min

A New Alternative for Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT)

By Ella Balasa Many in the CF community have experienced weight gain to some degree since starting modulator therapies in the last few...

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Nov 18, 2020
3 min

New Treatment for Lung Transplant Recipients Experiencing Chronic Rejection

Lung transplantation brings much hope to individuals battling severe lung disease with cystic fibrosis. However, long term prognosis is vari

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Nov 1, 2020
4 min

Getting a second opinion for your CF care

One of the great benefits of working in biotech was seeing firsthand how differently physicians can treat the same disease. Most Americans a

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Oct 20, 2020
4 min

Research Corner: Zero Percent Left Behind – Eloxx Pharmaceuticals Nonsense Target Therapy

The treatment advances for our community in just these short few years have been phenomenal. But sadly, as we know, not all of us have been

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Jul 13, 2020
4 min

A Glimpse Inside Our World: Striking Parallels between Life with CF and COVID-19

By: Emily Kramer-Golinkoff In March, as COVID-19 was ravaging our world, I could not help but be struck by some of the parallels between...

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Mar 13, 2020
9 min

Q&A: COVID-19 and a quarantined CF patient in Italy

Despite the news speaking of quarantine, it’s not exactly that. It’s more akin to an economic and social lockdown. People can still leave th

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Feb 27, 2020
4 min

No One Should Be Left Behind

Back in 2011, the collision of hope and desperation led my family, friends and I to start Emily’s Entourage (EE). We saw life-changing advan

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Feb 18, 2020
3 min

Research Corner: Translate Bio Recruiting Class 1 and Nonsense Mutation Patients

for those who have two nonsense or class I mutations, and no current modulator options, the feeling of being left behind is unmistakable

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Dec 27, 2019
4 min

The Future of CF

No one knows what the future may hold. However, based on the progress that has been made in the diagnosis and management of CF in the past s

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Dec 17, 2019
3 min

CF rare mutations and the fear of being left behind

Not being included in the breakthrough therapies for the CF community makes me experience a lot of bittersweet emotions that are hard to exp

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Nov 12, 2019
2 min

Research Corner: You Can Help Shape Airways Clearance Technique Education

Airway clearance is a vital daily aspect of maintaining lung function and stability in those of us with cystic fibrosis. Here in the United

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Nov 4, 2019
3 min

Why you Should Join the CF Transplant MiniCon

Let’s face it, if you have CF, love someone with CF, or have a family member with CF, transplant is looming somewhere out there in the futur

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Oct 21, 2019
4 min

FDA approves new breakthrough therapy for cystic fibrosis

FDA News Release Treatment approved for approximately 90% of patients with cystic fibrosis, many of whom had no approved therapeutic...

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Sep 23, 2019
5 min

Research Corner: Clinical Trial Participation Opportunities for Inhaled Nitric Oxide

To face the unmet medical need of clearing lung infections in CF, the proposed gaseous nitric oxide, Thiolanox® inhalation therapy has been

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Aug 26, 2019
5 min

Research Corner: MRT5005 – A Novel Therapy for Treating CF

“By addressing the central step in the production of proteins, our MRT product candidates are designed to give the body the instructions to

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