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Blog
July 1, 2026

by Rosie Garvey Food insecurity is a pressing issue that affects people across the United States, in rural and urban communities alike. According to the most recent national data, in 2024, 13.4% of households in the US experienced food insecurity. This means that at some point...

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Fellowship Blog
May 19, 2026

by Aine Stevens Aine Stevens is a 20-year old engineering student at the University of Connecticut and is a patient with CF. She is perusing Civil & Environmental Engineering and loves advocating for the CF community in her spare time.   When I was in the middle of...

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Clinical Trials
October 2, 2025

Post sponsored by Clarametyx While new therapies for cystic fibrosis (CF) are increasingly available to our community, many people with CF still face persistent and repeated infections that require the use of antibiotics. Now, researchers are developing a new approach to address these chronic infections by...

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Fellowship Blog
August 26, 2025

The U.S. patent system hinders genuine biomedical innovation by rewarding pharmaceutical companies for manipulating the patent process, rather than for developing legitimate treatments that benefit many. Policy reform is necessary to boost true innovation and lower drug prices.Pharmaceutical companies argue that high drug prices are...

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Fellowship Blog
August 14, 2025

Imagine stepping into a hospital under the pretense of receiving care, yet what you get isn’t truly what you need, and you still need to pay for it. A 2017 research article written by Heather Lyu, et al, states that “Physicians reported that an interpolated...