Researchers learn how lung fibrosis begins and could be treated
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
An invasive cell that leads to fibrosis of the lungs may be stopped by cutting off its supply of sugar, according to researchers. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which affects about 100,000 people in the US each year and leads to death within three years of diagnosis, has only one therapy in the US: lung transplantation.