Sentences with phrase «cystic fibrosis die»

Although advances in the understanding and treatment of cystic fibrosis have allowed many people with the condition to live into their early 40s, many patients with cystic fibrosis die of respiratory failure.

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He had recently finished a book called Alex: The Life of a Child about his daughter Alexandra, who had struggled all her short life against cystic fibrosis before dying at the age of eight early in 1980.

On March 4, Stewart's 11 - year - old son, Colin, died of cystic fibrosis.

If successful, that feat would go a long way toward restoring health in the tens of thousands of people around the world who suffered from cystic fibrosis and typically died in their late 20s.

Roughly 30,000 people in the United States suffer from cystic fibrosis, and despite research advances, many still die in early adulthood — nearly all of chronic lung inflammation prompted by P. aeruginosa.

Young rabbits often die from a disease called mucoid enteritis, which resembles cystic fibrosis and cholera.

One child with cystic fibrosis may die in infancy, while another becomes a competitive gymnast, and no one yet understands what other factors account for the difference.

Magnetic British actress Olivia Cooke, who Bates Motel fans know as the cystic fibrosis - stricken Emma Decody and One Direction fans know as Girl - Who - Gets - a-Piggyback-Ride-From-Harry-Styles in the «Autumn Term» video, shaved all her hair off for her role as a cancer patient in Me & Earl & The Dying Girl.

Central to the performer's makeup was the loss of his older brother Barry, who died of cystic fibrosis when Garry was just 10.