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Claire’s Place Foundation/Facebook Claire Wineland, an internet celebrity who chronicled living with cystic fibrosis, died on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of people watched her videos and read her posts where she discussed her illness and sought to change public perception of it. She died after a lung transplant partly crowdfunded by her followers. Claire […]
GETTY Cystic fibrosis affects 10,400 people in the UK, and five babies are born with the disease each week My beautiful little girl doesn’t look sick. In fact she looks so well that anyone who doesn’t know her wouldn’t have a clue that she has cystic fibrosis (CF), the UK’s most common life-threatening inherited disease. […]
WHEN the alarm goes at 5.30am every day I have to fight the instinct to hide under the duvet like a child and avoid starting the mammoth treatment regime that lies ahead for our five-year-old daughter Charlotte. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Keith Chegwin has died aged 60 surrounded by family The TV star had been battling a lung condition called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Symptoms of the condition include shortness of breath and a persistent dry cough It is thought to be caused by viruses, smoking or breathing in dust Keith Chegwin has died after a battle with idiopathic […]
KEITH CHEGWIN has died after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – a lung condition. What is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and what does it mean? Daily Express :: Health Feed
Results of a new drug trial suggest the next generation of medications, known as CFTR modulators, show potential to correct the genetic defect that causes cystic fibrosis and halt the disease’s destructive progression. CBC | Health News
Over the last two decades there’s been a big improvement in survival rates for people with cystic fibrosis, with patients in Canada living 10 years longer than those in the U.S. CBC | Health News
