STORY: This handheld device helps people with lung conditions breathe more easily. An actor is showing how it works. The smart device thumps on the chest to loosen excess mucus and uses artificial ...

A cystic fibrosis vest is a therapeutic tool. When worn, it provides compressions similar to manual chest percussions. Wearing the vest can help loosen sticky secretions so that a person can more ...

2 Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S Matteo, Pavia, Italia 3 Intensive Care Unit and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Groupe Hospitalier ...

Cystic fibrosis affects many parts of the body, but its effects on the lungs can be especially harmful. Cystic fibrosis is a chronic and progressive condition that causes the mucus in your lungs to be ...

A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what ...