Love Your Lungs – Living With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfmkE6zqT9A “Dolores has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and tells her story about living with lung disease. Dolores found help in dealing with her illness by contacting the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association (ILA).”   Learn more about IPF: http://bit.ly/1XjPFMa…

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The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) recently announced that it has acquired the Daughters of Pulmonary Fibrosis program from the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF), a 501c(3) nonprofit organization based in California that serves the pulmonary fibrosis (PF) community. By assuming the administration of the Daughters of PF program and giving money raised…

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miRagen Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of pioneering therapies based on microRNAs, recently announced the start of a Phase 1 clinical trial on the company’s product MRG-201 developed as a therapy for fibrotic conditions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that act as master regulators of…

“Patients, caregivers, and physicians discuss the disease and the role the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation has played in the past years.”   Learn more about Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: http://bit.ly/1MkiSzf  …

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aTyr Pharma Inc., a biotherapeutics company that discovers and develops medicines through its Physiocrine platform for the treatment of rare diseases, has announced the selection of a new Investigational New Drug (IND) candidate, an iMod.Fc molecule. The selected therapeutic molecule aims to aid in the management of severe fibrotic…

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals recently presented results of the Phase III INPULSIS trials investigating the efficacy of OFEV ® (nintedanib) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) at the American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting (CHEST 2015). The Phase III INPULSIS trials were randomized, double-blind studies designed to assess both…

Veracyte, Inc.recently presented four abstracts  on current diagnostic challenges related to interstitial lung disease (ILD) and the potential for improved diagnostic procedures using novel genomic-based strategies. The abstracts were given at the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s PFF Summit 2015: From Bench to Bedside at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., in…