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Cystic Fibrosis Weekly Update Contents: CFF Plans Feb. 28 ‘ResearchCon’ Virtual Event for Cystic Fibrosis Patients Cisco and Emily’s Hope Raise Over $1 Million in CFF’s Great Strides Campaign Sharing Life with CF on Social Media CFF Plans Feb. 28 ‘ResearchCon’ Virtual Event for Cystic Fibrosis Patients Feb 15, 2019 07:00 am | Larry Luxner Later this month, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) will host ResearchCon, its first virtual event dedicated to cystic fibrosis (CF) science and research. Some 480 people have registered for the Feb. 28 online conference, with at least 300 of them likely to participate, said Shellie Byrum, director of community partnerships at CFF. The free event, scheduled from 7-10:30 […] The post CFF Plans Feb. 28 ‘ResearchCon’ Virtual Event for Cystic Fibrosis Patients appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Cisco and Emily’s Hope Raise Over $1 Million in CFF’s Great Strides Campaign Feb 14, 2019 07:00 am | Vijaya Iyer Emily’s Hope and Cisco have raised more than $1 million as part of Great Strides – a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) fundraiser – becoming its top-performing national corporate team for the event. The Great Strides walk event is CFF’s largest national fundraiser that seeks to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis (CF), and shed light on the difficulties that CF […] The post Cisco and Emily’s Hope Raise Over $1 Million in CFF’s Great Strides Campaignappeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Sharing Life with CF on Social Media Feb 13, 2019 03:00 pm | Ella Balasa “Ella, you were at a bar?! I thought you were going to the hospital?” I received this perplexed (and perhaps skeptical) text after I posted a picture to social media of me at a local brewery for a cystic fibrosis-related fundraising event. I was smiling with a group of girls and the caption stated that […] The post Sharing Life with CF on Social Media appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More   Recent News An Open Letter to the ‘How Are You Feeling?’ Folks ‘Five Feet Apart,’ Film About Teens with CF and Young Love, Teams Up with Fashion Retailer rue21 A Life Intimate with Death Is Not a Life Deprived of Beauty Tobramycin Fights P. aeruginosa Bacteria That Impair CFTR Function, Study Says It’s Hard to Be Graceful While Becoming Disabled