Because certain IPF and post-transplant medications can cause sun sensitivity, skin protection is crucial, says columnist Sam Kirton.

A Texas researcher received a $219,000 NIH grant to study the potential of a treatment for radiation-induced pulmonary ...

Being diagnosed in January 2017 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and learning that the disease is chronic, progressive, and incurable was a lot for one day. Of course, I wanted a cure or ...

Over the coming months, the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation's 2025 PFF Walk will aim to raise more than $1 million for the ...

And then there are the procedures: bronchoscopies, pulmonary function tests, imaging scans, and sleep studies.All of these come with side effects, anxieties, and recovery time. Even when a procedure ...

For most of my life, I welcomed those muggy days of summer. But with my diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in January 2017, I didn’t realize that was about to change and I’d have to ...

That’s according to top-line data from the Phase 2b CORAL trial (NCT05964335), which is evaluating three doses of the experimental oral therapy against a placebo, taken twice a day, in 165 adults.

Welcome, LGBTQIA+ organ donors. When I received my bilateral lung transplant in July 2021, I wasn’t told anything about my donor. Even today, I have no information about this person. I can tell you ...

Let-7, an established tumor suppressor microRNA that controls gene activity, plays a key role in lung tissue repair and the development of pulmonary fibrosis (PF), which is marked by scarring of the ...

At times on my journey, I also had sobering encounters with reality — and not a shortage of them, either. Here are a few examples of that genre to help clarify what it’s like. During COVID-19 in 2020, ...