Nevertheless, a general consensus has arisen over the years that the potential public health benefits of CF screening, even if not universally appreciated, were too significant to ignore.

In 1997, the National Institutes of Health convened a Consensus Development Conference on Cystic Fibrosis (CF). 1 The Consensus Conference recommended that genetic screening for CF mutations ...

My dad tells me that my Uncle Andy was the greatest of kids. He was always smiling, had the vocabulary and sharpness of a literary maestro, and loved exploring. He also never complained a day in his ...