Cystic fibrosis: starfish offer hope for treatment
French researchers have discovered that a molecule contained in the starfish could be effective against cystic fibrosis. Ten years later, ...
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Preimplantation diagnosis: indications still limited
Preimplantation diagnosis makes it possible to identify embryos carrying serious genetic diseases. Its use remains very limited in France. File ...
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Cystic fibrosis: Virades to support research
As every year, the association Vaincre la cysticiscidose organizes the Virades of hope everywhere in France to finance research on ...
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Virades of hope: “The transplant is a wonderful gift” for cystic fibrosis
Last February, Adeline Belloc, a young woman with cystic fibrosis, received a life-saving lung transplant. She breathes freely for the ...
Read moreVirades of hope: “The transplant is a wonderful gift”
Last February, Adeline Belloc, a young woman with cystic fibrosis, received a life-saving lung transplant. "The disease slowly suffocates us ...
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Cystic fibrosis: the innovation that increases the number of grafts
French doctors have succeeded in increasing lung transplants by rehabilitating grafts that do not have the qualities required to be ...
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Cystic fibrosis: a drug to fight the most common form
The Orkambi has just obtained a temporary authorization for use. It is the first drug to target the most common ...
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Cystic fibrosis: gene therapy helps stop its progression
Cystic fibrosis currently has no treatment capable of interrupting its progression. For the first time, gene therapy has succeeded in ...
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Cystic fibrosis: 50 years of fighting the disease
The Association Vaincre la Mucoviscidose is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Half a century of struggle and mobilization against this genetic ...
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Telethon: major successes in cystic fibrosis
Life expectancy increases, general health improves. In cystic fibrosis, hope is at the rendezvous according to the results of a ...
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Conquer cystic fibrosis with Virades de l’Espoir
The 30th Virades of Hope, the solidarity day organized by the association "Vaincre la cysticiscidose", are taking place this Sunday ...
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy: green light for the first treatment that slows down the disease
Ataluren is the first drug effective in the treatment of Duchenne's disease. The European Medicines Agency has just given the ...
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Cystic fibrosis: the health of patients is improving
The life expectancy of patients with cystic fibrosis has been on the rise for 20 years. Other encouraging indicators in ...
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Virades: breathe new life into the fight against cystic fibrosis
On September 29, the association Vaincre la cysticiscidose is organizing the Virades de l'epoir. An event to raise funds for ...
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Cystic fibrosis: a new campaign for an invisible disease
The Association Vaincre la cysticiscidose launches its new awareness campaign. 2 million people, even healthy, would be carriers of the ...
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A simple blood test to put an end to the amniocentesis
80,000 women each year undergo amniocentesis to detect an inherited disease of the fetus. A blood test would avoid this ...
Read moreTrisomy 21: the gynecos favorable to the blood screening test
A blood test would avoid the invasive act of amniocentesis to detect trisomy 21. Gynecologists recommend it for patients at ...
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