With slate-gray clouds threatening from above, about 100 people gathered in Verona Park today for a walk to raise money to find a cure for cystic fibrosis.

Joy as well as tragedy brings good people out of the woodwork. Great happiness and numbing fear came into my life during August of 1993.

Saturday, the Bradley Park location of Merle Norman Cosmetics will donate 10 percent of all sales to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Great Strides Walk.

French drug major Sanofi Aventis has unveiled plans for a a 200m biotechnology investment at its manufacturing facility in Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris, under its collaborative Biolaunch project.

More than 125 Soaps it Up events to take place throughout Canada and U.S. to help those in need and earn worldwide bragging rights HAMILTON, ON, May 6 /CNW/ – CARSTAR Automotive Canada announced today the company’s intention to set a Guinness World Record by washing more than 4,000 cars in eight hours at multiple venues on Saturday, June 20, 2009.

Actress MacKenzie Rosman spoke at Vestavia Hills High School student assembly, praising students for their fund-raising. TV actress MacKenA zie Rosman visited Vestavia Hills, Alabama, High School today to congratulate the student body for raising $17,135 for cystic fibrosis.

Originally posted in Cystic Fibrosis News From Medical News Today

An innovative treatment for infections of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis patients has received orphan drug designation in the US. Axentis Pharma of Zurich, Switzerland announced today that this sought-after designation has been granted to its product candidate Fluidosomes-tobramycin, a therapeutic that will soon be tested in Phase II clinical trials.

Originally posted in Cystic Fibrosis News From Medical News Today

Pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis (ASX: PXS; Nasdaq: PXSL) is pleased to announce positive results of its recently completed international Phase III trial of Bronchitol(TM) in people with cystic fibrosis. The study represents one of the largest clinical trials conducted in cystic fibrosis.

Pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis is pleased to announce positive results of its recently completed international Phase III trial of Bronchitol in people with cystic fibrosis.

A fire ripped through a home early this morning in Toledo. It happened in the 600 block of Whitlock.

Romano’s Italian Cuisine, at 1510 W. Innes St., and Capriano’s Italian Cuisine, 231 Faith Road, are partnering with Cystic Fibrosis Team “Saving Grace” next week for an annual fundraising event.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 6:56 p.m. As a parent, the worst thing your child can face is a severe illness.

From left, cystic fibrosis patient Jamie Chafe; Roberta Clark, president of the P.E.I. chapter of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; Laura Read from Calgary and Art Parson from Montreal are all determined to beat cystic fibrosis.