Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects roughly 40,000 Americans. The condition is caused by a mutation in the patient's cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated disease that differs from person to person. An autosomal recessive disorder ...

Maren Denison, third-year student at the University of Iowa, was in sixth grade when she found out her lung function had dropped to 60 percent as half of her lung had collapsed and was scarred shut.

By now, as 1990 dawned a new decade, Welsh had studied cystic fibrosis for nearly 20 years, ever since medical school, when a pivotal patient screening pushed him to specialize in pulmonary medicine.