In this video from MD Magazine TV, watch Dr. Danny McBryan, from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, talk about the data his company published at CHEST, about how hard it is to find medications and treatments for IPF patients, and how having even one viable…
It’s known that genetics may be a cause of the development of pulmonary fibrosis, but in the majority of cases, the cause is unknown — a condition known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Each patient tends to have an individualized experience with the disease, which can progress faster or slower from…
PFF Care Center Network is a group of medical centers which dedicate their work to improving the lives of those living with pulmonary fibrosis. According to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, these kinds of centers are expanding and keep growing. Their main purpose is to treat patients with…
In this video from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, meet little Ghadah, a baby girl who suffers from a rare lung disease and needed a lung transplant. Parents do everything for their children, and that’s what Faleh Alrashidi, from Saudi Arabia, did. He searched for…
In this video from Gifted Life, watch Lauren answer eight questions about transplants that she usually gets asked about. Watch the full video to learn more about her transplant journey. Learn more about pulmonary fibrosis: http://bit.ly/1VElTQA…
In this video from CHEOvideos, watch Dr. Bernard Thébau, a physician in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, talk about the healing possibilities stem cells from umbilical cords can have to treat lung disease in premature newborns. Watch the…
It’s widely known that genetics may be a cause of the development of pulmonary fibrosis, but in the majority of the cases, the cause is unknown — a condition known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Each patient tends to have an individualized experience with the disease, which can progress faster or…
In this video from Baylor Scott & White Health, watch David P. Mason, M.D., chief of thoracic surgery and lung transplantation, discuss what lung transplantation is, and how it can both extend and improve pulmonary fibrosis and other lung diseases patients’ life. Learn more about…
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation shares a lot of tips on its website about how to deal with your pulmonary fibrosis. One of the things it wants to remind you is to be aware of how and where you search for information about your disease on the internet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjH89WbO9js Baylor Scott & White Health shared this video in 2015, where they discussed if and when a person is too old to have a lung transplant. The video features the story of …
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