Broadway performers will sing show tunes at the 15th annual Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Broadway Belts for PFF! event, which will be held at New York’s Sony Hall March 10 to raise funds and awareness for pulmonary fibrosis, a disease in which scar tissue forms in the lungs. Tony…
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Rapidly spreading wildfires have taken over the news headlines from the Los Angeles area, as I write this column. Dry weather and the Santa Ana winds joined forces to create an inferno there. Wildfires are just one emergency that the pulmonary fibrosis (PF) community must be prepared to…
Inhibiting the HIF2 protein — fully, hypoxia-inducible factor 2 — was found to ease scarring in a mouse model of lung injury and could be a promising therapeutic strategy for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to the results of new preclinical research. In the lab, a team of…
Becoming educated and informed about PF is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
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There is no cure for PF yet, but here you can find more information about current therapeutic approaches, as well as experimental treatments that are in the pipeline.
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