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Pancreatic Enzyme Products May Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Malabsorption via CF News Today

March 19, 2019

Via Cystic Fibrosis News Today After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued rules requiring approval of pancreatic enzyme products (PEPs) in 2004, the cost and availability of the products added another hardship to the lives of cystic fibrosis patients, some of whom use PEPs to...

IFN-γ Found to Help Clear Lethal Bacteria in Cystic Fibrosis Infections via Bio News -TX

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CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

SOURCE - BIO NEWS TEXAS Researchers at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio are finding ways to boost immunity in cystic fibrosis patients. Colleagues in principal investigator Dr. Benjamin Kopp’s laboratory published a study in PLoS One that details the use of interferon...

Alcresta Announces Agreement with CFF Therapeutics to Develop Point-of-Care Nutritional Products

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CF Community, CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

SOURCE - Marketwatch.com PRESS RELEASE April 17, 2014, 7:31 a.m. EDT Alcresta Announces Agreement with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics to Develop Point-of-Care Nutritional Products Agreement Highlights Importance of Medical Nutrition in Managing Cystic Fibrosis NEWTON, Mass., Apr 17, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alcresta®, a leading medical nutrition company developing innovative...

Kamada Ltd. Launching New CF Clinical Trial this Summer

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CF Community, CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

SOURCE [Posted by Mike Nace on bionews-tx.com] Israel-based Kamada Ltd., a drug development company currently developing plasma-derived protein therapeutics that are chiefly targeting orphan diseases, indicated recently in a press release that their lead drug candidate Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT), which is currently in trials for treatment of...

CFF Therapeutics Extends Drug Development Collaboration via CFF.org

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CF Community, CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

SOURCE: CFF.org Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. (CFFT), an affiliate of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, announced it will extend funding for continued collaboration with Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc., for the development of new therapies to treat the most common CF mutation, Delta F508. Proteostasis will continue to focus...

U.S. FDA Approves KALYDECO™ for Use in Eight Additional CF Mutations

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CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

SOURCE - VERTEX PRESS RELEASE KALYDECO is the first medicine to treat the underlying cause of CF for people with specific mutations in the CFTR gene KALYDECO facilitates increased chloride transport by potentiating the channel-open probability (or gating) of the CFTR protein The eight additional mutations are present in...

FDA Advisory Committee supports the use of Novartis inhalation powder, Tobramycin

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Boomer Esiason Foundation, CF Community, CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

The FDA Advisory Committee voted 13 to 1 that research showed adequate evidence to support the use of tobramycin inhalation powder by cystic fibrosis patients whose lungs contain the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the leading cause of lung function loss in patients with CF. Tobramycin inhalation...

Gene Network Restores Cystic Fibrosis Protein Function

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CF Community, CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

Source: Science Daily (July 31, 2012) Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease caused by mutations in a gene that adversely affect its protein product. In its correct form and cellular location, this protein, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), functions as a channel for ions to...

Final Results from Phase 2 Combination Study of Kalydeco and VX-809 Show Significant Improvements

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CF Community, CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

Source: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation A Phase 2 clinical trial of Kalydeco™ in combination with VX-809 showed significant improvements in lung function in people with the most common CF mutation, according to final results announced today by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. Both Kalydeco and VX-809, a CF drug in...

Concentrated Saline Therapy Not Effective in Young Children with CF, Study Finds

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CF News, Research, Therapies

March 19, 2019

Inhaling concentrated saline (salt water) mist does not reduce how often infants and young children with cystic fibrosis need antibiotics for respiratory symptoms, according to findings from a clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes...

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