New understanding of cellular defects related to Cystic Fibrosis (CF) could help pave the way for treatment. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) are hopeful new understanding of ...

Picture shows Paul McNally, Associate Professor of Paediatrics at RCSI and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at the launch of a major new study that has been ...

A major new study led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children's Health Ireland (CHI) has been awarded funding of €5.6M to work with babies and children in Ireland and the UK ...

For young people with cystic fibrosis, lung infection with Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, is common and is treated with antibiotics in the hope that this will prevent a decline in lung function. However ...

A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what ...

Cystic fibrosis is the most frequent severe inherited disorder worldwide. Every year, hundreds of families are confronted with this diagnosis - and to date, there is no cure for this disease that ...

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) impacts roughly 35,000 people in the United States. CF results in a mutated form of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), leading to dysfunction of a ...

Scientists have made new headway in understanding how a deadly pathogen evolves during chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder that causes severe lung damage and nutritional problems in children. Years ago children with the disease were not expected to survive beyond their teens, but ...

The prestigious annual Canada Gairdner Awards recognize the world’s most accomplished researchers whose work is improving our understanding of human health and disease. Since 1957, 426 awards have ...