A collaboration between researchers at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston studying an infectious outbreak in cystic fibrosis patients has yielded important new information regarding ...

Researchers from Aston University and Birmingham Children’s Hospital have developed a new medication regimen that could successfully treat a bacterial infection that could prove fatal to patients with ...

University of Iowa researchers are one step closer to understanding how cystic fibrosis causes lung disease. The findings, published online last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, ...

Scientists have combined doses of three antibiotics -- amoxicillin and imipenem-relebactam and found it was 100% effective in killing off the infection which is usually extremely difficult to treat in ...

New research suggests that lowering excessive levels of a protein in immune system cells could be a strategy to clear an infection that is deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). New research ...

I am 22 years old and have had trouble with a cyst on my tailbone for years. Once or twice a year the cyst begins to hurt, and then opens up and drains spontaneously. Should I see my doctor about this ...

Scientists have found why a certain type of bacteria, harmless in healthy people, is so deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis. The Ohio State University researchers have determined that B.

Researchers at the University of Calgary have found a new method of fighting severe lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). These findings are published in Proceedings of the National ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) affects over 100,000 people worldwide and is caused by one of several known mutations in the CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) gene. The CFTR protein is a ...

October 1, 2010 — Cystic fibrosis (CF) exacerbations are linked to chronic infection with the bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, according to the results of a study reported online today in the ...

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