DLCO declined earliest, falling measurably about 10 years before the defined onset. By five years before onset, DLCO had ...

Supportive therapy, like medications to help open the airways and heal infections, can help you live a healthier life and meet many of the challenges of this inherited respiratory condition. Share on ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a disease that people can be born with. While there is no cure, people with CF may live well into adulthood if they receive the appropriate treatment and medical monitoring.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis stands as one of medicine’s most challenging respiratory conditions, gradually transforming healthy lung tissue into stiff, scarred material that severely compromises ...

Universal screenings for the inherited disease promised to get babies diagnosed and treated sooner. But they still miss some children of color. By Liz Szabo By the time Rena Barrow-Wells gave birth to ...

The star, best known for hosting children’s game show Cheggers Play Pop, died in his home surrounded by loved ones. His family said the incurable lung condition had “rapidly worsened towards the end ...

RIT biomedical engineering researchers identify a protein that can reduce fibrosis and slow disease progression.

PF pathogenesis involves alveolar epithelial cell injury, profibrotic mediators, and dysregulated non-coding RNAs, complicating disease management. Current treatments, including pirfenidone and ...

As inflamed regions of the gut form scar tissue, the space within the gut lumen becomes smaller and more restricted, leading ...

Researchers discovered immune cell aggregates in the gut may signal blood vessel cells and fibroblasts to produce excess ...