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 ...

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

In total, 165 IPF patients with chronic cough were randomly assigned to one of three doses of nalbuphine ER (27, 54, or 108 mg) or a placebo, twice daily. The primary goal was to assess the therapy’s ...

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 ...

Clinical trials are an important part of IPF research, says columnist Sam Kirton, but we need people willing to participate in them.

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 ...

Nerandomilast (BI 1015550) is designed to block the activity of phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B), a pro-inflammatory enzyme involved in fibrosis. It’s expected to reduce inflammation and scarring in PF, ...

Mice lacking let-7 in lung cells spontaneously develop lung injury, demonstrating that the tumor suppressor microRNA serves as a braking mechanism against the formation of profibrotic cells following ...

With the arrival of COVID-19 in 2020, the support group pivoted to being online. It wasn’t safe for a community of IPF patients to meet in person, even in a hospital setting. We patients, like many ...

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, ...