GRI Bio reached an interim enrollment goal for a clinical trial testing GRI-0621, a therapy targeting natural killer T-cells ...

Having identified two vertebral fractures, columnist Sam Kirton's care team orders a plethora of tests to assess his bone density.

An EU committee is recommending that tranilast, the active ingredient in a pulmonary fibrosis drug candidate, be awarded ...

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Disrupting the rhythm of day-to-day life with pulmonary fibrosis comes at a cost. My pretransplant medications can be best described as a primer for what was to come. Following my bilateral lung ...

A cancer immunotherapy known as ipilimumab was able to reduce scar formation and promote tissue regeneration in the lungs of a mouse model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Treatment boosted the ...

My adventure continues. At this point, regular readers might be thinking, “What now?” Some may even pause to make some popcorn before reading further. I was surprised when I was diagnosed with ...

As of April 11, almost 105,000 people are awaiting an organ transplant in the U.S., according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Of those, 993 are waiting for a lung transplant. In the past year ...

Watching the U.S. elections last week was an exercise in mental health awareness, as is any activity in which the outcome is greeted with mixed reactions and emotions. The refrain from Carly Simon’s ...

Sam Kirton started his column in November 2021 and writes from his home at Lake Anna, Virginia, where he lives with his wife Susan. His diagnosis at age 59 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in ...