Cystic Fibrosis Weekly Update

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Contemplating Our Identity

Oct 12, 2020 09:00 am | Tré LaRosa

A pandemic meets a life-changing medication. It sounds like the beginning of a modern love story. Last year, a film came out about two teenagers with CF who fall in love. If you’ve been even tangentially near the CF community, you’re probably familiar with it. To reclaim their identities in spite of the life-shortening chronic […]

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Certain Factors Could Predict Severe Episodes of Coughing Up Blood in CF Patients, Study Says

Oct 12, 2020 07:00 am | Patricia Inacio, PhD

Factors such as diabetes, a specific type of fungal infection, and previous mild to moderate episodes of hemoptysis, or coughing up blood, may help predict the risk of massive hemoptysis in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), a study suggests. The study, “Predictors of massive haemoptysis after a first episode of mild-to-moderate haemoptysis in patients with […]

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