Pulmonary fibrosis turns the lungs to scar tissue, making it harder and harder to breathe. Help may be on the way as a drug being tested locally aims at giving sufferers their breath back.
Doctors are encouraged by early results of Fibroneer, a drug they hope can help stop lung scarring from Pulmonary fibrosis.Pulmonary fibrosis turns the lungs to scar tissue, making it harder and harder to breathe.
"People that have that disease normally live 3 to 5 years," he recalls her saying, adding, "I left there really downtrodden and emotionally upset.""Each person has an individual situation, a different case, different circumstances, difference genes," he notes.
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