Cystic Fibrosis Weekly Update

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Study Reveals How Cystic Fibrosis Affects Young Women’s Sexual Health

Nov 28, 2018 07:00 am | Larry Luxner

Girls with cystic fibrosis (CF) reach puberty six to eight months later than healthy girls, about 16 percent of young females with CF encounter problems during sex, and 78 percent of these women would like to have children someday. These are among the key findings of an unprecedented survey conducted in 2015-16, and made public for […]
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GEn1E to Explore MUC1-ED to Prevent P. Aeruginosa Infections in CF

Nov 27, 2018 07:00 am | Alice Melão

GEn1E Lifesciences has added to its development pipeline an investigational non-antibiotic, antibacterial agent for treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The company established an exclusive option agreement with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to license patent rights over the MUC1-ecto-domain (MUC1-ED) compound, currently in preclinical development. MUC1-ED was invented by several […]
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Cystic Fibrosis Care in Mexico and Brazil: Two Interviews

Nov 26, 2018 03:00 pm | Luisa Palazola

For the first part of this series, I interviewed two women from two different countries in Latin America. Regina Rodríguez is 18 and from Mexico City, Mexico. Miriam Figueira, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a 30-year-old doing post-doctoral CF research at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. My interviews unfolded into conversations about their unique […]
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