Every Breath Counts: Living with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

6 Pulmonary Fibrosis Risk Factors

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a respiratory disease characterized by the presence of scarred tissue in the lungs. “It can be challenging to figure out what caused your pulmonary fibrosis. Sometimes doctors are able to identify one or more causes of your disease, but it is also common…

15 Pulmonary Fibrosis Experimental Therapies

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: What You Need to Know

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…

Pediatric Lung Transplant: Little Ghadah’s Story

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…

Antegrin to Develop Oral Integrin Antagonists to Treat PF and Other Types of Fibrosis

Antegrin Therapeutics recently announced that it is expanding its current medication portfolio to include anti-fibrosis agents that block proteins known as integrins. The drugs were originally discovered at the Center for World Health & Medicine (CWHM) at Saint Louis University. Antegrin already offers several medications that target conditions characterized by fibrosis, including pulmonary…

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