https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB71s2_klbA I Am News, a local community news project from Swansea, UK, shared this video where you can meet Margaret Marsh. Margaret is an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patient, a member of the British Lung Foundation and Chair of Chepstow Breathe Easy Group. In this video, she…
While living with a serious rare lung condition such as pulmonary fibrosis, it is understandable that several doubts and questions about it may come up. In this video, shared by Demystifying Medicine, learn more about some important questions regarding pulmonary fibrosis. Is PF the…
Netrin-1, a factor produced by the extracellular matrix, drives the production and accumulation of fibrocytes, a fibrosis-promoting cell type in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc)-induced pulmonary fibrosis, according to a study by Yale University School of Medicine researchers. Fibrocytes are cells that often reside in the extracellular matrix —…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZjVxgHXR8E I Am News, a local community news project from Swansea, UK, shared this video where you can meet Margaret Barnard. Margaret is a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient, a member of the British Lung Foundation and Breathe Easy Group. In this video, she shares a little bit…
You’ve probably already heard about stem cells and their healing power. Several disease can be treated by using stem cells treatments and therapies, pulmonary fibrosis being one of them. But what exactly are stem cells and how can they be so versatile to be able to be used as…
In this recent line of videos by this father of two named Mark, we are presented with his story of resilience and strength. In 2014, his health was rapidly declining and he found himself bedridden for most of the year because of the deterioration in his lung functions due to…
Veracyte, Inc., recently announced that data from multiple studies supporting the ability of its diagnostic tests to help detect pulmonary disease, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), will be presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2016 International Conference taking place in San Francisco. Veracyte will discuss findings from a total of eight studies, two…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLupXGkga5g I Am News, a local community news project from Swansea, UK, shared this video where you can meet Margaret Barnard. Margaret is a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient, a member of the British Lung Foundation and Breathe Easy Group. In this video, she shares a little…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tTAQBbSeg Meet Heather Cronin. Heather is an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patient who faced a huge turn in her life when she was first diagnosed. In this video, shared by University of Maryland Medical Center, Heather talks about how IPF has affected her life, at the same time as Dr.
Demystifying Medicine, a youtube channel which is part of the McMaster University, shared this video in 2015, where you can watch Robert Davidson, the Canadian Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation founder, talk about his idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis and why he decided to create the foundation in…
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