A new study supports the clinical utility of human nasal epithelial cultures as predictive biomarkers for cystic fibrosis ...

FORMER Dancing With The Stars judge Julian Benson has died after a “courageous battle” with Cystic Fibrosis. The talented ...

A new 96-week study confirms the long-term safety and sustained efficacy of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor in children with cystic fibrosis aged 6–11 years.

They can make mucous and secretions thick and gluey, and make sweat extra salty. The thickened secretions can block and damage secreting glands and allow infections to occur, particularly in the lungs ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that the European Commission has granted regulatory approval for a label expansion of KAFTRIO® (ivacaftor/tezacaftor/elexacaftor) in a combination ...

About Cystic Fibrosis Cystic fibrosis (CF ... pancreas, GI tract, sinuses, sweat glands and reproductive tract. CF is caused by a defective and/or missing CFTR protein resulting from certain ...

For almost a century Cystic Fibrosis all but guaranteed an early death. Nowadays advances in modular drug therapy have ...

Vertex was the first company to produce a medicine tackling the root cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) – mutations in a gene that codes for ion channels in cells that produce mucus, sweat ...

A new EMA approval has expanded the use of Vertex Pharma’s cystic fibrosis therapy Symkevi to ... gastrointestinal tract, sinuses, sweat glands, pancreas and reproductive tract.

Big Brother star Reggie Bird has recalled the moment she was told her son Lucas had Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Bird, 51, spoke about the her son's devastating diagnosis on the Two Doting Dads with Matty J ...

People living with cystic fibrosis can now take a once-daily drug that will help ... It causes the cells to make mucus, sweat, and digestive juices that are thick and sticky instead of thin and ...