Recent IPF News and Announcements

02/20/08 - CPF Publishes 1st Quarter, 2008 Action Alert Newsletter .pdf

02/19/08 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and National Jewish Medical and Research Center Collaborate to Provide Genetic Counseling for Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients

01/28/08 - Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients/9/11 Responders Represented at State of the Union Address for Second Year in a Row

01/22/08 - Coalition For Pulmonary Fibrosis and American Thoracic Society Awards $100,000 Pulmonary Fibrosis Grant to Massachusetts General Hospital Researcher

01/21/08 - CPF Appoints Mishka Michon Chief Executive Officer

01/18/08 - Rare Lung Disease Cells Indicate Higher Mortality Risk

01/18/08 - Hollywood Takes Notice of Little Known Deadly Lung Disease

12/10/07 - CPF Publishes Fourth Quarter, 2007 Action Alert Newsletter .pdf  .doc

11/30/07 - Evel Knieval Lost to Pulmonary Fibrosis

11/28/07 - Study: NEJM Study Indicates CT Scans Could Raise Cancer Risk

11/06/07 - Gilead and LG Life Science Announce Agreement to Advance Novel Drug Candidates for Treatment of Fibrotic Diseases

10/29/07 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Fundraising Events Raise $280,000 for IPF

10/17/07 - CPF To Co-Host Living with IPF Patient Seminar in Partnership with Emory University

10/17/07 - CPF Urges Congress to Increase Funding for IPF Research in 2009 Federal Budget

10/17/07 - Resolution Recognizing Pulmonary Fibrosis Challenges Overwhelmingly Passes House

10/16/07 - Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) Publishes Letter to the Editor in Support of Work of CPF

09/27/07 - Man's Best Friend May Open Door to Understanding Fibrotic Lung Disease in Human and Animal Populations

08/30/07 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Launches Aggressive Ad Campaign Directed at United States Congress

08/16/07 - First Clinical Genetic Test for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Launched by Ambry Genetics

08/14/07 - CPF Profiled in Everything Respiratory Summer Newsletter

08/08/07 - Pulmonary Fibrosis Mortality Rates Continue to Increase, Especially in Women

07/28/07 - CPF's Teresa Geiger Appears on TMJ-4 Milwaukee (2nd Interview) (Windows Media File)

07/26/07 - Resolution Recognizing IPF and CPF’s National IPF Awareness Week Passes Senate

07/25/07 - CPF's Teresa Geiger Appears on TMJ-4 Milwaukee (Windows Media File)

07/18/07 - Resolution Recognizing IPF Challenges Introduced in 110th Congress

07/13/07 - Congressman Baird Works to Raise Awareness of Pulmonary Fibrosis

06/11/07 - NEOPHARM, Inc. Signs Exclusive License Agreement with NIH for the Use of CINTREDEKIN BESUDOTOX for the Treatment of Pulmonary Fibrosis

06/08/07 - Joe Nichols Fan Club Partners with CPF to Create Memorial Gift in Nichols' Father's Name

06/05/07 - Pipex Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Phase I/II Clinical Trial Results of COPREXA for the Treatment of IPF  .pdf

06/05/07 - UPMC Researchers Find Gene Expression Patterns Predict Rapid Decline In IPF Patients

06/04/07 - John's Hopkins University to Host Patient Education Day June 16, 2007

05/16/07 - InterMune Completes Patient Enrollment in Phase 3 'Capacity' Program Evaluating Pirfenidone in Patients With IPF

05/08/07 - CPF Publishes First Quarter, 2007 Action Alert Newsletter .pdf

04/18/07 - CPF Signs On to Medicare Rights Center Letter to Congress Asking for Elimination Medicare 24-Wait Period Act

04/16/07 - Respiratory Care Leadership and CPF Express Patient Access Concerns Over CMS Final Rule on Competitive Bidding for Home Oxygen Therapy

04/06/07 - CPF to Host Living with IPF Patient Symposium May 12, 2007

04/05/07 - VIDA Diagnostics Inc. receives $200,000 medical imaging grant from NIH

03/29/07 - Families Respond to Discovery of Genetic Link in Pulmonary Fibrosis Published in NEJM

03/28/07 - Gene Mutations Linked to IPF by Hopkins, Vanderbilt Researchers

03/22/07 - Medical Journal Publishes First Large-Scale Survey Revealing Experiences of IPF Patients

03/20/07 - InterMune Provides Update on Phase III Pirfenidone Clinical Trials

03/17/07 - Respironics' I-neb(R) Device to be Utilized in Clinical Evaluation of Interferon Gamma in IPF Patients

03/13/07 - UCLA Study Reports Viagra May Help Improve Exercise Capacity in Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients

03/12/07 - Stem Cell Finding Could Help Reduce Transplant Rejection

03/05/07 - InterMune Discontinues Phase III Clinical Trial of Actimmune for IPF

02/14/07 - Congressman Norwood, IPF Patient & Advocate, Was Inspiration, Help to Pulmonary Fibrosis Sufferers

02/13/07 - CPF Publishes First Quarter, 2007 Action Alert Newsletter .pdf | .doc

02/05/07 - CPF & Home Respiratory Therapy Leaders Express Concern Over Administration’s Proposed Cuts to Medicare Home Oxygen Benefit

01/22/07 - Coalition For Pulmonary Fibrosis and American Thoratic Society Awards $100,000 Pulmonary Fibrosis Grant to Johns Hopkins Researcher

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