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 ...

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 ...

A Phase 2 clinical trial has begun recruiting that’s assessing the safety and efficacy of LTI-03, Rein Therapeutics’ inhaled therapy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). RENEW (NCT06968845) is ...

Last week, I added endocrinologist Oksana Davydov to my team. Davydov specializes in the management of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. When I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ...

In people with IPF, however, senescence markers are more abundant than in healthy individuals, and the abnormal persistence of these cells has been linked to inflammation and scar tissue formation..

Although there is no cure for IPF, two antifibrotic medications have been approved to treat the condition: Esbriet (pirfenidone) and Ofev (nintedanib), both of which can slow lung function decline.