New research from the Arnold School's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has found disparities in mortality rates and life expectancy for Americans living with sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis.
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Cystic fibrosis was once a dire, likely deadly diagnosis, destroying a patient's ability to breathe and digest food—but a revolutionary new treatment offers reason for hope.
Sep 11, 2025
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Sweat does more than just cool down an overheating body. Measuring the chemical makeup of an individual's sweat—specifically the levels of chloride, a chemical component of salt—can serve as an early warning system to help ...
Aug 20, 2025
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A new wireless and wearable device developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists, in collaboration with Northwestern University spinout company, Epicore Biosystems, measures specific biomarkers in a person's sweat with similar ...
Aug 18, 2025
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What infectious disease is deadliest worldwide? HIV? COVID-19? Malaria?
Aug 11, 2025
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A new study meticulously sampled different lung regions in people with cystic fibrosis to understand why infections persist after new treatments.
Aug 7, 2025
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When you're sick you'll often produce more phlegm, and might notice it's thicker or a different color: white, green, yellow or maybe even brown.
Jul 28, 2025
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Tiny fat bubbles carrying gene therapy have successfully repaired DNA in the lungs and liver of animals with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency—a promising leap toward treating humans with this rare inherited disease.
Jul 20, 2025
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A new PET imaging technique can accurately detect and monitor Mycobacteroides abscessus lung infections—one of the most difficult-to-diagnose conditions in patients with lung diseases.
Jun 25, 2025
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated disease that differs from person to person.
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