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	An inherited life-threatening disease involving a genetic mutation that disrupts the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) protein, resulting in poorly hydrated, thickened mucous secretions in the lungs.
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Cystic Fibrosis Patients' Self-assessment Of Health Can Predict Prognosis (Medical News Today)

January 02, 2009 at 06:15 AM

Adult Cystic Fibrosis patients can provide important information that helps to predict their prognosis, according to research that asked 223 adult CF patients to assess their own health and well-being. "We wished to see whether patients themselves had clinically relevant insight to their disease, and we found that they did," said lead author of the study, Janice Abbott, Ph.D.

Girl with cystic fibrosis bags deer (The Greenwood Commonwealth)

January 05, 2009 at 11:02 AM

Libbey Porto didn�t waste any time claiming her first deer Thursday, bagging an eight-point buck less than two hours into a hunt in Philipp. �I thought I wasn�t going to shoot it. I thought I was going to miss it,� she said.

NC to require cystic fibrosis screening (News 14 Carolina)

December 30, 2008 at 04:06 PM

RALEIGH -- Beginning in January, North Carolina will require screening of all newborn babies for cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system.

Marshfield lobsterman giving away lobsters to raise awareness of cystic fibrosis (The Patriot Ledger)

December 30, 2008 at 04:56 AM

Don Hebert is giving away free lobsters at the town pier in Marshfield today at 11 a.m. to raise awareness of cystic fibrosis. �

Walking for Cystic Fibrosis research (Scoop.co.nz)

December 29, 2008 at 07:31 PM

Determined Wellington student Emma Daken has just seven more walking days before she triumphs in her quest to set a record as youngest Kiwi to walk the length of NZ � for Cystic Fibrosis research.

Cystic Fibrosis Patients' Self-assessment Of Health Can Predict Prognosis (Science Daily)

December 29, 2008 at 09:26 AM

Adult cystic fibrosis patients can provide important information that helps to predict their prognosis, according to research that asked 223 adult CF patients to assess their own health and well-being.

Write & roll: Game inspires man to write fiction (Temple Daily Telegram)

January 04, 2009 at 01:25 AM

DID YOU KNOW? Fifteen percent of all profits from �Dream Paladin,� by M. Dennis (the the pen name of Michael Flanery of Moody) will go to the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in honor of Flanery�s 8-year-old cousin, Cali Brown of Deer Park.

Apple's Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO (AP via Yahoo! News)

January 05, 2009 at 04:44 PM

Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he has an easily treated hormone imbalance and will remain in charge of the company.

Nanotechnology: the science of tiny raises big hopes and also big fears (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

January 05, 2009 at 12:30 PM

EDMONTON - It's the speck of dirt on the foot of a flea, and within it may be locked the Utopian dreams of a great beginning or the repressed fears of apocalyptic end times.

Apple's Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO (San Francisco Chronicle)

January 05, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he has an easily treated hormone imbalance and will remain in charge of the...