A new drug for pulmonary fibrosis has reduced disease progression by more than 50% over a 52-week treatment in two clinical trials; pulmonary fibrosis is a very serious disease, with a life prognosis ...

BECHTELSVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Most of us take breathing for granted. But with pulmonary fibrosis, patients lose that despite the best medical efforts. That outcome is on the verge of change.

Clinical worsening also occurred less frequently with treprostinil ...

DLCO declined earliest, falling measurably about 10 years before the defined onset. By five years before onset, DLCO had ...

Background Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) caused by interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) affects up to 0.1% of the global population. There is growing global interest in PF, evident from a nearly threefold ...

Because evidence gaps in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis research hinder demonstration of antifibrotic therapies’ impact on patient quality of life (QOL), integrating validated health-related QOL ...

Novel oral agent nerandomilast slowed lung capacity decline in patients with non-idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) interstitial lung disease (ILD) with a progressive pulmonary fibrosis phenotype, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was causally linked to the development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, with shared plasma factors CC motif chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2) and CXC motif chemokine ligand 2 (CXCL2 ...