In findings published in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, the COMBAT CF trial found azithromycin—a commonly prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotic—when used as a preventive therapy helped reduce the inflammation ...
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Cystic fibrosis is a rare genetic disease which can cause very serious symptoms. In particular, patients suffer from chronic bacterial infections that can lead to respiratory failure. It is caused by mutations in the CFTR ...
May 24, 2022
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Two mRNA vaccines, which received emergency authorization in late 2020, have proven critical in the fight against COVID-19. These vaccines, the first of their kind, were the culmination of decades of research on RNA. Delivered ...
May 16, 2022
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For the first time, researchers have successfully used bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—to treat an antibiotic-resistant mycobacterial lung infection, clearing the way for a young National Jewish Health patient ...
May 13, 2022
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The lower airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have unique biochemical features that correlate with the complex communities of lung bacteria typical of this disease, according to a multicenter study led by researchers ...
Mar 23, 2022
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A research team at Colorado State University has discovered that drugs used to treat malaria are also effective at treating a pulmonary disease similar to tuberculosis.
Mar 21, 2022
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Children with complex medical conditions, especially those who require behavioral health treatment, often have to go outside of their insurance plans' provider networks for care, a new study has found.
Mar 21, 2022
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Laboratory studies of lung tissue usually require the removal of large amounts of human or animal tissue. Now scientists from the University of Freiburg's Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in collaboration with American ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Pathogens don't always work against drug treatments. Sometimes, they can strengthen them, according to a new University of Maine study.
Mar 15, 2022
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For patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), overweight and obesity are associated with higher forced expiratory volume in the first second of expiration compared with normal weight, according to a meta-analysis published online ...
Mar 14, 2022
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