Because certain IPF and post-transplant medications can cause sun sensitivity, skin protection is crucial, says columnist Sam Kirton.

A Texas researcher received a $219,000 NIH grant to study the potential of a treatment for radiation-induced pulmonary ...

Clinical trials are an important part of IPF research, says columnist Sam Kirton, but we need people willing to participate in them.

And then there are the procedures: bronchoscopies, pulmonary function tests, imaging scans, and sleep studies. All of these come with side effects, anxieties, and recovery time. Even when a procedure ...

In total, 165 IPF patients with chronic cough were randomly assigned to one of three doses of nalbuphine ER (27, 54, or 108 mg) or a placebo, twice daily. The primary goal was to assess the therapy’s ...

“Following productive FDA interactions and positive top-line results from the Phase 1b trial, we have designed our RENEW trial to test the promise of our dual mechanism approach to targeting alveolar ...

To find out, a research team led by Victor Thannickal, MD, senior study author and professor of medicine at Tulane, examined gene activity and protein production in lung tissues from IPF patients. The ...

In a previous column, I wrote about the challenges of losing weight, and that struggle only added to my unease when I had to transfer from the patient bed to the procedure table. The table was so thin ...

The BEACON-IPF (NCT06097260) trial was assessing whether once-daily doses of bexotegrast (160 mg or 320 mg) could improve lung function in about 360 IPF patients, ages 40 and older, when compared with ...

Secondary efficacy measures included the time to the first occurrence of an acute disease exacerbation, hospitalization due to breathing problems, or death. The trial is also assessing ...