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In-hospital mortality elevated in cystic fibrosis cardiac hospitalizations

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiac cause hospitalizations included those for atrial fibrillation, heart failure or myocardial infarction.
Sioux City Journal

Dealing with cystic fibrosis, an orphan disease

Devon Angerman, at 23, must consider herself a middle-aged woman. Though as healthy looking as any other 23-year-old, the Sioux City woman suffers from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that gives ...
The Atlantic

Everyone Thinks They're Skinny; A Cystic Fibrosis Breakthrough

Discovered: Everyone thinks they're skinnier than they are, a big Cystic Fibrosis breakthrough, dialysis isn't very sexy and money, not race, explains gap in life expectancy.

‘We were sitting with our calculator saying “we can afford that!”’ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach

The cost of medication was too high for thousands of CF sufferers around the world. Now a Bangladeshi company is making a generic version that will change lives ...