Blog -
Sangeeta Enright, Welfare & Rights Advisor
-
Published Date:
As coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions lift across the UK, Sangeeta Enright, the Trust’s Welfare & Rights Advisor, discusses changes in the way disability benefits are assessed.
Last week over 400 delegates watched our online UK CF Conference. Topics covered new ways to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), improving our understanding of CF related complications and why research into better treatments for lung infections is still a priority for CF research. Here we share some of our highlights.
Blog -
Rebeccca Cosgriff, Director of Data and Quality Improvement
-
Published Date:
The Trust's Director of Data and Quality Improvement Rebecca Cosgriff explains the findings of a paper, published this week in the journal Thorax, comparing global data of cystic fibrosis (CF) populations in the UK and the US.
We spoke to Professor Daniel Peckham, Director of the Adult CF Centre in Leeds, to find out more about the topic of cancer and CF, and work that is underway to further our knowledge in this important area.
An international, multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Professor Stephen Renshaw at Sheffield University, will be investigating a possible role for the cystic fibrosis (CF) protein, CFTR, in causing CF-related bowel cancer.
