Breathing disorders are common in the U.S. with conditions like COPD affecting some 7% of the population and asthma affecting another 10%. Digestive conditions like GERD, acid reflux, Celiac disease ...

For many years, it was believed that when an individual develops liver scarring, it can not be reversed. Today, we know that ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a disease that people can be born with. While there is no cure, people with CF may live well into adulthood if they receive the appropriate treatment and medical monitoring.

Cystic fibrosis is among the most common, known and studied genetic diseases. It affects over 100,000 people worldwide and ...

Inside the deadly disease confounding medicine, researchers piecing together clues and the breakthrough that meant survival ...

Congenital hepatic fibrosis is a type of liver disease that is present from birth. It typically affects the function of the bile ducts and the veins that carry blood from the digestive tract to the ...

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it's too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more ...

There are worries that people with cystic fibrosis (CF) and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) might not live as long after transplant as those with CF without NTM, but we found no clear evidence about ...

Researchers in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Tissue Regeneration and Mechanobiology (TRAM) Laboratory are investigating a new approach that could change how fibrosis is treated across organs in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The genetic disorder cystic fibrosis is unique because it can cause both breathing and digestive problems. Some 40,000 people in ...