Frustrating Things People Say to Patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis

Compound from Chinese Plant Seen to Protect Against Fibrosis in IPF Rat Model Study

Astragaloside IV — a compound isolated from a traditional Chinese medicinal plant — was found to reverse epithelial–mesenchymal transition, a process crucial to the progression of fibrosis, through its impact on a protein called FOXO3a, a study by researchers in China reports. The study, “Astragaloside IV modulates TGF-b1-dependent epithelial-mesenchymal…

A Gratitude Miniseries: June 2018

This is an ongoing series. Read the May 2018 entry here. Here it is: my gratitude miniseries column for June 2018. This means that we’re halfway through the year and, overall, I’d say it has been a better one for me, compared to the past few years. That isn’t…