by Laura Bonnell | Feb 19, 2024 | Podcasts
This is our third podcast with Alan Klein, the Chief Development Officer at Healthwell. As a reminder, Healthwell was paying about $25 million each year for CF co-pays in therapeutics. But because of the lack of funding from their corporate sponsors they stopped...
by Laura Bonnell | Feb 12, 2024 | Podcasts
(Please consider subscribing to our podcast and rating it. It helps us with promotion. Thank you) What a treat for all of us today. Nicholas Kelly is in the house. I’ve wanted him on our podcast for a while. Nick was diagnosed with CF when he was 3 months old....
by Laura Bonnell | Feb 5, 2024 | Podcasts
Karen McEwan’s daughter, Elana, is 20 years old. It’s been a complex journey from birth to today. Elana suffers from a rare, incurable disease called Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD). This is the first podcast that is not about cystic fibrosis specifically, although...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 29, 2024 | Podcasts
Rena Barrow has two kids with CF, Jarrod is 22 and Jahsir is 3 years old. Over the years she’s witnessed a discrepancy in care for people of color. Even after her 22 year old son was diagnosed, doctors weren’t sure her newborn baby had CF. They told her,...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 22, 2024 | Podcasts
I am excited that all of you will get to meet Dr. Susanna McColley!!!! I was so impressed with her commitment to CF and her incredible medical and life knowledge. Dr. McColley works to promote equitable diagnosis and treatment in cystic fibrosis. As a white person,...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 15, 2024 | Podcasts
Caroline Heffernan talks to CF families about all sorts of things, employment, family support, housing issues, cross infection, fertility…you name it. Caroline talks all things CF. As someone with CF she knows what she’s talking about. She’ll even discuss End of Life...
