CF Happens
Sometimes in life, CF happens…pun intended.
Category: Blog Life
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Interesting title? Let me explain. I was at a friends house on Sunday evening sitting on a bar stool at her kitchen island chit chatting with her while she was cooking/baking. Along comes a coughing fit. A doosey one where I see stars and shake. Well this one went a little farther and I blacked…
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New CF Combo Therapy, Symdeko by Vertex, Approved by FDA for Certain Patients Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Symdeko (tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor) as a therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients carrying two copies of the F508del mutation in the CFTR gene (the gene defective in CF) or with one mutation that responds to tezacaftor/ivacaftor.
CF Happens 