Findings from a new Dartmouth-led study, published in the journal mBio, highlight key differences in the gut microbiome (communities of bacteria) of infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared to that of healthy infants, and ...
Feb 13, 2025
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Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Working with an international team, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the disease causes changes in ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Researchers have been trying for decades to stop the cells that damage the lung in people with pulmonary fibrosis. Now a team of Columbia and UCSD researchers may have found a clever solution that sidesteps the difficulty ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Pulmonary fibrosis is a rare, chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs, making breathing difficult for people who suffer with it. And, as University of South Florida pulmonologist Dr. Jose Herazo-Maya knows all too ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease affecting multiple organ systems, with pancreatic dysfunction representing a critical and often overlooked complication. A recent study published in eGastroenterology ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—organizations that negotiate access to medicines for most patients in the United States—steer patients to use their own pharmacies. However, ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Research led by Brock University has found a possible cure for lung diseases typically found in older adults, such as pulmonary fibrosis. The findings are published in the journal Aging Cell.
Jan 10, 2025
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Each child had already undergone at least three open-heart surgeries. They'd endured countless hours in doctors' offices and hospitals after being born with a serious heart condition.
Dec 31, 2024
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Researchers at National Jewish Health and colleagues have completed the first study comparing lung macrophages in multiple models of lung injury. The research indicates that macrophages previously described as "pro-fibrotic" ...
Dec 27, 2024
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Chronic liver damage can lead to hepatitis, which causes fibrosis of the liver. This buildup of collagen and other fibrous tissue accelerates when hepatic stellate cells become activated during hepatitis, often resulting ...
Dec 19, 2024
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