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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients experience a significant decline in quality of life and worse symptom burden during the last months of life, a real-world study shows. The Finland-based study, “Marked deterioration in the quality of life of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis during the last…

RXC006, an oral treatment candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other types of fibrosis, was seen to ease lung scarring in a mouse model of IPF, its developer, Redx Pharma, has announced. The investigative inhibitor is also reported to work favorably in human lung fibroblasts grown in the laboratory.

Middle-age adults with reduced respiratory function have up to a 27% higher risk of developing dementia or cognitive impairment later in life, a study suggests. This risk pattern is even more pronounced in patients with restrictive lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to the study, titled “…

A herbal extract derived from a product used in Korean traditional medicine may be a potential alternative treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a mouse study suggests. The herbal extract was found to reduce inflammation and markers of lung fibrosis in a mouse model of PF…

Pulmonary fibrosis significantly increases the risk of severe pneumonitis (inflammation of lung tissue)  among patients with lung cancer who were treated with Opdivo or Keytruda, a retrospective study suggests. The study “Pre-existing pulmonary fibrosis is a risk factor for anti-PD-1-related pneumonitis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: A…

Reduced levels of decorin proteins in the blood may be linked to a lower risk of death among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) who have experienced acute exacerbations, researchers suggest. Their findings were reported in the study, “Serum decorin is a potential prognostic biomarker in…

Bridge Biotherapeutics filed an investigational new drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start a Phase 1 trial of its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) treatment candidate BBT-877 in January. BBT-877 is an inhibitor of the enzyme autotaxin (ATX). This enzyme is relevant…

Evidence that the IGFBP-5 protein contributes to the development of pulmonary fibrosis was supported by new research finding that its higher-than-normal levels in people with fibrotic disease help to drive other pro-fibrotic proteins and factors. The study, “IGFBP-5 Promotes Fibrosis via Increasing Its Own Expression and That…

A new small molecule inhibitor of the LOXL2 enzyme, developed by Pharmaxis, is safe and holds potential to treat fibrotic diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non‐alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), according to results from a Phase 1 trial. The study (ACTRN12617001564347) enrolled 48 healthy volunteers who were…

Redx Pharma announced it soon give an update on early work on a potentially new type of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) treatment, called RXC006, that may help patients with advanced disease. Peter Bunyard, PhD, the company’s head of fibrosis, will present preclinical data at the 2nd Anti-Fibrotic…