A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder whose hallmark symptom is inflammation in the joints resulting in swelling, pain, and stiffness. But RA, particularly if left untreated or ...

William O’Neal II was skeptical. He’d taken pills all his life and they'd had only ever moderately helped his myriad cystic fibrosis symptoms. Invasive nebulizer therapies and harsh mucus-loosening ...

Office was a generous word for the room in which Dr. Mike Welsh did lots of his research. Large closet fits better. Welsh was mostly alone, hunched over specialized microscopic equipment on a ...

The coughing is so violent, so thunder sharp, that Dr. Mike Welsh, hears the deep, wet claps through the room’s closed wooden door and well down the hallway. The echo reverberates, the force of each ...

IOWA CITY — William O’Neal II glances over his laptop screen every time the front door scrapes the sidewalk above, the extended whoooosh of escaping current like an airlock depressurizing. One of ...