• 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 out for a second and fell out of the bar stool straight on my face.  Yes, you read that right.  Pictures below… (more…)

  • 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. (more…)