Young Girl with CF Improves After Pancreas Removal with Cell Transplant, Case Report Says
Aug 28, 2019 07:00 am | Jose Marques Lopes, PhD
A young girl with cystic fibrosis (CF) and acute recurrent pancreatitis was able to eat some food normally and experienced relief of her abdominal symptoms after undergoing a complete removal of her pancreas and a transplant of pancreatic cells into her liver, according to a case report. At 4 years old, she is reportedly the […]
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Processing My Pain Was Necessary for Me to Heal from Years of Hurt
Aug 27, 2019 09:00 am | Brad Dell
In the days after I got new lungs, I’d pray for the healing to move faster so I could get on with life. I’d stand in front of a mirror and stare at the transplantation scars that cracked my chest as they shifted from blazing red to shiny purple, then faded from dull pink to […]
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MAC Lung Infections Best Treated When Specific Bacterial Species Known, Study Finds
Aug 27, 2019 07:00 am | Steve Bryson PhD
Pulmonary infection with a specific species of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), called Mycobacterium intracellulare, can be aggressive in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), with a greater loss of lung function evident but a lesser incidence of a secondary lung infection, a single-site study reports. This species also responded best to antibiotic treatment, its researchers said, suggesting that […]
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I’m Failing the System and the System Is Failing Me
Aug 26, 2019 03:00 pm | Bailey Vincent
“There’s no other way to paint it. I’m in pain. That’s my life. And no one can help me.” That was what I texted my husband after the third day of injustice from my biliary system. For the past few weeks, I’d deluded myself into thinking that what I call my chronic pancreacosis (psychotic pancreas […]
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The Resiliency of the Human Spirit
Aug 26, 2019 09:00 am | Tré LaRosa
Few phenomena fascinate me more than human happiness. So often we get caught up in the idea that we would be happier if so-and-so happened. I’m sure I won’t be the first to tell you that the grass ain’t always greener on the other side. This idea is known as the hedonic treadmill or the […]
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FDA Grants Priority Review to Vertex’s 1st Triple Combo for CF
Aug 26, 2019 07:00 am | Patricia Inacio, PhD
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Vertex’s new drug application for its triple combination — elexacaftor (VX-445) plus tezacaftor and Kalydeco (ivacaftor) — for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients who cannot use the company’s other disease-modifying treatments or don’t benefit as intended. The FDA is expected to announce its final decision by March […]
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A young girl with cystic fibrosis (CF) and acute recurrent pancreatitis was able to eat some food normally and experienced relief of her abdominal symptoms after undergoing a complete removal of her pancreas and a transplant of pancreatic cells into her liver, according to a case report. At 4 years old, she is reportedly the […]
In the days after I got new lungs, I’d pray for the healing to move faster so I could get on with life. I’d stand in front of a mirror and stare at the transplantation scars that cracked my chest as they shifted from blazing red to shiny purple, then faded from dull pink to […]
Pulmonary infection with a specific species of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), called Mycobacterium intracellulare, can be aggressive in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), with a greater loss of lung function evident but a lesser incidence of a secondary lung infection, a single-site study reports. This species also responded best to antibiotic treatment, its researchers said, suggesting that […]
“There’s no other way to paint it. I’m in pain. That’s my life. And no one can help me.” That was what I texted my husband after the third day of injustice from my biliary system. For the past few weeks, I’d deluded myself into thinking that what I call my chronic pancreacosis (psychotic pancreas […]
Few phenomena fascinate me more than human happiness. So often we get caught up in the idea that we would be happier if so-and-so happened. I’m sure I won’t be the first to tell you that the grass ain’t always greener on the other side. This idea is known as the hedonic treadmill or the […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Vertex’s new drug application for its triple combination — elexacaftor (VX-445) plus tezacaftor and Kalydeco (ivacaftor) — for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients who cannot use the company’s other disease-modifying treatments or don’t benefit as intended. The FDA is expected to announce its final decision by March […]
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