Cystic Fibrosis Around the World heads to the Middle East to learn about CF care in Israel. Israel, Anonymous teenager living with CF (completed interview with help from a parent). About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosis? 600 Do people in your country know what CF is? Many have heard of the...
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Today we head to Northern Europe – the Netherlands. Please note the brackets [] indicate an edit for spelling or language. the Netherlands, Anonymous child living with CF (parent completed interview). About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosis? On average 1500 people Do people in your country know what CF is? Some...
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Cystic Fibrosis Around the World takes us to Russia today. Please note that the brackets [] indicate an edit I made for spelling or language. Moscow, Russia – Anna 6 years old living with cystic fibrosis (parent completed interview) About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosis? In 2015 officially 2916 patients were...
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Today I am launching a daily blog series called Cystic Fibrosis Around the World that will run for the next week or so (and hopefully continue as more people get in touch with me). This in response to a blog post I wrote in March that remarked on a study comparing disease outcomes between patients...
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A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that “the median age of survival [is] 10 years higher [for CF patients] in Canada than the United States.” If you’re wrapped up in the world of cystic fibrosis news like I am then you’ve probably seen this study floating around the Internet for the past 18 hours....
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