Fibrosis News

Rosie was helping her mother, Paula Garvey, of Amherst, raise money to fight cystic fibrosis - a disease Rosie has battled since birth - during a fundraiser dubbed Toast for a Cure.

Raising money to help a family in need can be one of the cornerstones of small and tightly-knit communities.

Although she's classified as disabled from cystic fibrosis, Karen Speer continues to do the work of an angel.

WPCNR HEARTBEAT. By Jack Lim as told to The CitizeNetReporter. November 11, 2008: Umpire Jack Lim found he had an incurable disease with perhaps three years to live by reading a handbook in a hospital waiting ...

Medford-based MSM Protein Technologies Inc. , operated by its four sole investors Davis Farmer , Tajib Mirzabekov , David Kreimer and Eldar Kim , has secured funding from the Maryland-based nonprofit Cystic ...

The Greater Illinois Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has announced its fundraising event, Uncork a Cure, will be in Naperville Nov.

The Promenade Shops were bustling Thursday night for a good cause. The Harvest Tasting Stroll is part of a nationwide effort to raise money for cystic fibrosis research.

This Saturday, the 2008 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Great Strides: Taking Steps to Cure Cystic Fibrosis Walk will be held at Wild Adventures.

He was born 27 years ago, at Woman's Hospital in Flowood. Something was terribly wrong.

Supporters of the 2008 Montgomery County Great Strides Walk want you to come join them this weekend for fundraising activities to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

"I feel pretty good. I feel like I finally did something." With help from local performers and businesses, the first musical charity night fundraiser was a success.

A Tolland family will hold a fundraiser Nov. 7 at Marco Polo Restaurant for cystic fibrosis research.

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that results from a randomized Phase 2a European study demonstrated that treatment with the investigational drug PTC124 caused statistically significant improvements in ...

Completed in June 2008, the study was an open-label, two week efficacy and safety trial of once daily inhaled liposomal ciprofloxacin in 22 CF patients conducted at leading CF centers in Australia and New ...

Another small study of Vertex Pharmaceuticals' experimental cystic fibrosis drug released Monday showed that the drug, VX-770, improved lung function and was safe.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced positive results from a preliminary analysis of data from Part 2 of the Phase 2a clinical trial of the investigational oral drug VX-770 in cystic fibrosis ...

Charles Paul Baker, of Nantucket, Mass., died peacefully on Oct. 11, 2008, after battling cystic fibrosis his entire life.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals unveiled mixed results from a smal trial of a much-hyped experimental cystic fibrosis drug Monday.

VX-770, an investigational CFTR potentiator, was well-tolerated when dosed orally as 150 mg or 250 mg twice daily for 28 days.

A musical charity night is being held Saturday, October 25. It's a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis Research being spearheaded by a group of family and friends of Ken and Pam Grady of Douro.