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When UNSW Associate Professor Shafagh Waters explains cystic fibrosis (CF) to the children she works with, she asks them to imagine what is happening inside their own bodies. "I tell them to picture an airport," she says. ...
Feb 6, 2026
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More children with medically complex conditions are surviving into adulthood, but researchers have had limited visibility into how these conditions influence adult hospital care. Young adults with complex chronic childhood-onset ...
Jan 28, 2026
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly used as a tool in many health care settings, from writing physicians' notes to making recommendations in specific cases. Research has found that AI and large language models can reflect ...
Jan 21, 2026
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Until relatively recently, children and young people with life-shortening conditions were not expected to survive into adulthood.
Jan 7, 2026
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A new multi-site study led by researchers at CU Anschutz shows that people with cystic fibrosis (CF) who start the triple-drug therapy elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) can safely reduce many of their daily lung treatments ...
Dec 5, 2025
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Lung diseases like tuberculosis and cystic fibrosis can be difficult to treat. In part, that's because the two-dimensional models researchers use to study the diseases don't accurately reflect the shape of human lungs—and ...
Oct 8, 2025
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Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it's usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide diagnosis and treatment. But ...
Oct 7, 2025
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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.
Sep 25, 2025
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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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