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Researchers are exploring treatments that will keep people with cystic fibrosis as healthy as possible until a cure is found. In the first plenary at the NACFC, two CF scientists explain the progress of current research.
We asked -- and hundreds of you answered -- how you pass the time during long treatments. Check out what the CF community told us when we asked what makes you #morethanCF.
This year at the 30th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Orlando we have three sessions just for the online cystic fibrosis community.
It can be difficult to find time for daily CF treatments in your already jam-packed lives, but your respiratory therapist can help.
Our daughter's airway clearance treatment with the vest went more smoothly after we learned a few tricks.
In the third plenary, Dr. Wayne Morgan talked about the connection between cystic fibrosis care and the Patient Registry, and introduced a new way for people with CF, along with their families, to help shape the research conducted using the Registry.
There was a clear message in today's second plenary at NACFC: no matter what role you play -- physician, scientist, person living with CF, parent, fundraiser, regulator -- it is going to take a tremendous team effort to advance new therapies as fast as possible and eventually find a cure for CF.