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Feb 09, 2021, 13:07 ET Broadway Belts For PFF! Goes Virtual: A Virtual Benefit for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

Broadway stars on a mission to raise funds and awareness for pulmonary fibrosis (PF) will take the stage virtually for the first time in the...

Jan 14, 2021, 10:45 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Announces Sponsorship by United Therapeutics

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF), the nation's leading pulmonary fibrosis (PF) education and advocacy organization, has announced United...

Jan 11, 2021, 11:19 ET First Patient Enrolls In PRECISIONS Study For Treatment Of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Today, the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) announced enrollment of the first patient in PRECISIONS (Prospective tReatment EffiCacy in IPF uSIng...

Dec 28, 2020, 13:22 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Urges COVID-19 Vaccination In Letter To Patients

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) is encouraging COVID-19 vaccination for individuals with pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and debilitating...

Nov 23, 2020, 11:05 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Researcher Wins NIH Award

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) is announcing that 2019 PFF Scholar, Dr. Jeremy Katzen at the University of Pennsylvania, a PFF Care Center...

Nov 12, 2020, 11:13 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Launches Campaign To Raise PF Awareness And Early Diagnosis

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation today announced the "Pinpoint PF" education and awareness campaign aimed at individuals with symptoms and at a...

Jul 21, 2020, 10:47 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month Set to Celebrate Pulmonary Fibrosis Heroes

September marks Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month, presented by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) to spread the word about pulmonary fibrosis...

Jun 09, 2020, 10:30 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Expands Medical Team

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) today announced the appointment of three highly respected pulmonologists as senior members of its medical...

Apr 06, 2020, 11:20 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Statement on COVID-19

Several media reports of cases of pulmonary fibrosis resulting from COVID-19 disease have raised important questions in the pulmonary fibrosis...

Apr 02, 2020, 11:52 ET In-Person Testing and Signature Requirements Waived for Home Oxygen Needs

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) is urging pulmonary disease patients, healthcare providers and oxygen suppliers to use new guidelines issued...

Mar 04, 2020, 11:15 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Launches Industry Consortium To Identify Biomarkers In Pulmonary Fibrosis

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) today announced a new collaboration that could speed up the development of targeted treatments for...

Feb 06, 2020, 13:02 ET Bernadette Peters, Broadway Stars Unite To Perform In Pulmonary Fibrosis Benefit

Multi-Tony Award-Winner, Bernadette Peters (Hello, Dolly!, Follies, A Little Night Music), along with New York's theatrical community, will raise...

Nov 04, 2019, 12:10 ET NIH Awards Major Grant In Pulmonary Fibrosis Research

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) today announced the launch of PRECISIONS, a study that aims to transform the diagnosis and treatment of...

Sep 04, 2019, 11:38 ET Three Lakes Partners And Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Partner In Fight Against Pulmonary Fibrosis

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) and Three Lakes Partners today marked September's National Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month with the...

Jul 23, 2019, 08:45 ET Medical Centers Specialize To Treat Patients With Complex Lung Disease

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) today announced that eight new sites have joined its Care Center Network (CCN) to help serve the more than...

May 30, 2019, 11:57 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Patient Registry Research Presented At American Thoracic Society Conference

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) today announced that abstracts using data from the PFF Patient Registry were presented at the American...

Apr 15, 2019, 11:38 ET Research And Peer Support Drive Conference On Life-Threatening Lung Disease

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation's PFF Summit, the world's largest healthcare conference on pulmonary fibrosis (PF), will unite the PF community and ...

Mar 20, 2019, 11:38 ET Access To Care Improves For Patients With Complex Lung Disease

In an effort to make quality care more available to the 200,000 Americans living with pulmonary fibrosis (PF), the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation...

Mar 14, 2019, 11:35 ET Broadway Stars Set Fundraising Record To Fight Lung Disease

BROADWAY BELTS FOR PFF!, a benefit for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) raised a record $400,000 on Feb. 25 at Time Square's Edison Ballroom....

Mar 06, 2019, 11:40 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Updates Warning On Stem Cell Therapies Outside Clinical Trials

The medical advisory board of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF), the nation's leading patient education and advocacy organization representing...
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation And Responsum Health Launch New Online Patient Newsfeed And Resource Platform

Jan 23, 2019, 12:05 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation And Responsum Health Launch New Online Patient Newsfeed And Resource Platform

Pulmonary fibrosis patients, their loved ones and care team can now connect through a platform jointly launched by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation...

Oct 10, 2018, 11:40 ET Thousands Of Americans Have Pulmonary Fibrosis, Many Not Diagnosed

More than 200,000 Americans are living with pulmonary fibrosis (PF), a progressive and debilitating lung disease that leads to scarring of the lungs....
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation's Patient Registry Reaches Target Enrollment

Jul 31, 2018, 11:17 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation's Patient Registry Reaches Target Enrollment

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) announced that it has achieved its enrollment goal for the initial phase of the PFF Patient Registry with...

Jul 19, 2018, 12:55 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Launches New PF Health App

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) and monARC Bionetworks have partnered to create the mobile app, PF Health, for individuals living with...

Jun 27, 2018, 12:55 ET Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Launches Oxygen Information Line

For more than one million people living with serious lung conditions, such as pulmonary fibrosis (PF), a prescription for supplemental oxygen therapy ...