The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of tezacaftor/ivacaftor (Symdeko®) for children with cystic fibrosis ages 6 to 11 with specific mutations.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of ivacaftor (Kalydeco®) for children as young as 6 months.
The Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium Biorepository and Patient Registry, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, will provide critical clinical data and samples to support future research investigating complications of lung transplant.
Dr. Frank Accurso, director of cystic fibrosis clinical research at Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver, participated in a congressional roundtable discussion at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation awarded up to $5.1 million to TB Alliance to advance a drug discovery program in partnership with Johns Hopkins University. The effort will identify compounds with the potential to treat nontuberculous mycobacteria infections that are increasingly found among people with CF.
Researchers' catalog of airway cell types could reveal targets for future genetic therapies
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation celebrates the FDA's approval today of the lumacaftor/ivacaftor combination drug (Orkambi™) as an important advance for the cystic fibrosis community. Orkambi targets the underlying cause of the disease in people with two copies of the most common CF gene mutation.