Tag: CF

  • Nation & World

    When her life is over, she’ll have lived

    Harvard senior Elsie Tellier has responded to her lethal disease with courage, sadness, and compassion. But not bitterness.

    3 minutes
    Elsie Tellier.
  • Nation & World

    Big advance against cystic fibrosis

    Harvard stem cell researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have taken a critical step toward discovering in the relatively near future a drug to control cystic fibrosis, a fatal lung disease that claims about 500 lives each year, with 1,000 new cases diagnosed annually.

    7 minutes