Anytime I hear (or see) someone talking about the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines as if they are experimental, I cringe on the inside. I’d go as far as saying it feels like a slap in the face for anyone who has ever enrolled in a clinical trial. I am one of those people. From 2013...
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Times are changing in cystic fibrosis. Anecdotally you hear about patients rapidly withdrawing treatments or sessions altogether. At my last clinic visit, we even discussed, “why don’t you try withdrawing your evening session? Start with every other night at first.” If I didn’t have a baby coming our way in December, I would have been...
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The answer: A LOT. I decided to do some very rough back-of-the-napkin math to understand spending in the CF space because occasionally I come across a strange fundraising appeal that solicits donations for cystic fibrosis research on the basis that the US government does not fund research efforts for the condition. If you run in...
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccine development process, Moderna has sought to be incredibly transparent with the trial population – from age groupings, to racial identifiers and risk groups. Today’s release of data about their vaccine candidate has not been any different. Embedded in the FDA’s briefing document on the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, the...
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The FDA’s vaccine advisory meeting is today where it’s probably all but certain that the committee will vote to move Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine across the Emergency Use Authorization finish line to begin the largest mass vaccination campaign since polio vaccinations began in the mid 20th century. If you’re following me on Twitter, you know I have...
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Last week I celebrated one year free of IV antibiotics. Darcy and I took a stroll down main street in Woodstock, Vermont and grabbed coffee at one of our favorite cafés in the area. It’s a milestone that we always love to celebrate because memories of just the opposite still plague our thoughts. In the...
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With the calendar turning to October this week (thank God 2020 is coming to an end), we will be celebrating one year of Trikafta’s availability in the United States. It goes without saying that a lot has happened since then – the most significant thing to celebrate is the CF community’s seemingly overnight transformation. Not...
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