http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New research suggests that lowering excessive levels of a protein in immune system cells could be a strategy to clear an infection that is deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-strategy-deadly-infection-cystic.html Medical research Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:35:54 EST news278170549 People with cystic fibrosis (CF) will be able to access the latest research findings about their condition, volunteer for clinical trials and influence the direction of future scientific studies through a new website being launched later this week.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-website-cystic-fibrosis-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:11:13 EST news276847866 Scientists more used to studying the communities of bacteria that live in natural environments like rivers and soils are helping transform doctors' understanding of a life-threatening illness, and could ultimately shed light on many other health problems too. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-ecological-approach-cystic-fibrosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:05:16 EST news275209386 (Medical Xpress)—Healthy people's lungs are home to a diverse community of microbes that differs markedly from the bacteria found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. That's the result of new research from Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, which has wide implications for treatment of cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-healthy-lungs-microbes-focus-cystic.html Medical research Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:43:53 EST news267957826 Adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients of low socioeconomic status (SES) have a greater chance of not being accepted for lung transplant after undergoing initial evaluation, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cystic-fibrosis-patients-ses-lung.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:20:01 EST news266778914 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers working as part of the International Cystic Fibrosis Consortium have discovered several regions of the genome that may predispose cystic fibrosis (CF) patients to develop an intestinal blockage while still in the uterus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-gene-variations-linked-intestinal-blockage.html Genetics Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:00:15 EST news252502985 (Medical Xpress) -- Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease affecting Canadian children and young adults, more than two children each and every week are diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF). New research at Ryerson University, in partnership with The Hospital for Sick Children, is examining the interaction between lab-tested drugs and the defective protein that causes CF to understand how and why the drugs work and to create stronger, more powerful second generation drugs to treat CF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-defective-protein-cystic-fibrosis-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:38:07 EST news252146273 Experts from Bristol and Nottingham are leading a major new national study to investigate whether intravenous antibiotics are effective in killing a common germ that causes dangerous complications in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-clinical-trial-success-cystic-fibrosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:48:44 EST news252064114 When it comes to treating cystic fibrosis, the current standard of aggressive antibiotic treatments may not always be the best answer, a decade-long study led by researchers at the University of Michigan has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-decade-long-antibiotic-cystic-fibrosis.html Medical research Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:00:01 EST news251982787 A team of researchers, including a number from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, have pinpointed regions of the genome that contribute to the debilitating lung disease that is the hallmark of cystic fibrosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-genome-regions-severity-cystic-fibrosis.html Genetics Mon, 23 May 2011 11:02:55 EST news225367360 Children with cystic fibrosis (CF) who have poor lung function early in life are more likely also to have poor lung function in adolescence, regardless of whether they are exposed to a common infection caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa in early childhood. Earlier studies had indicated infection with the bacteria early in life was strongly associated with poor lung function later on. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-bacterial-infection-indicator-poor-lung.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 May 2011 10:38:55 EST news224761091