6 Foods That Can Help You Fight a Cold or Flu

6 Foods That Can Help You Fight a Cold or Flu

Winter is a perilous time if you have a compromised immune system, but you can’t stay alone inside for four months. You have to get on with your daily life, and just hope you don’t succumb to other people’s bugs and illnesses. However, there are some foods that can help you avoid catching a cold…

Sputum Analysis Could Be an Alternative Source of Biomarkers for IPF

Measuring disease-associated factors in sputum may be a less invasive way of tracking molecular changes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) than bronchoalveolar washing, which involves sucking material from the lungs with a syringe, according to a study. Researchers found several factors in IPF patients at higher levels than in healthy people…

Living With Pulmonary Fibrosis: Colin’s Story

  In this film by the British Lung Foundation shared by Magneto Films, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patient, Colin, describes what it’s like living with the disease. Find out about the symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis.  Colin, who’s from the U.K., first noticed symptoms on holiday when he began to experience…

Will I Miss Out on Significant Life Events?

Please accept my apologies if this post is a little bit of a downer. One of the things I promised myself when I started writing this column was that I would be honest and include the good, the bad, and the ugly about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF.) There…

14 Invisible Illnesses You May Not Know About

Invisible illnesses are conditions patients have that are not obvious when looking at them. Often people with an invisible illness face a lot of prejudice; others accuse them of faking, lying or exaggerating their illness. People just don’t fully understand what patients with invisible illnesses are going through.

The Challenges of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

https://vimeo.com/167741642 In this Information Television Network film, the series Healthy Body, Healthy Mind looks at the challenges doctors and patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) face on a daily basis. Read our list of five questions you should ask your doctor about pulmonary fibrosis. The film explains that there…

Confo Therapeutics Receives Grants to Develop New Fibrosis Therapies, Expand Its Technology

Confo Therapeutics has received two multi-million-dollar research grants, one to identify new G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) agonists to treat fibrosis and another to develop new applications for the company’s proprietary Confo technology. Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) gave Confo a two-year €1.6 million ($1.7 million) grant for research into the GPCR…