by Laura Bonnell | Jan 30, 2023 | Podcasts
Dr. Harutai Kamalaporn sees 12 of the 30 patients diagnosed with CF in Thailand. The challenges she faces are: lack of medications, equipment and sweat chloride tests at all three hospitals. Dr. Kamalaporn continues to advocate for more testing machines. Some...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 23, 2023 | Podcasts
If you are taking one of Vertex’s medications, you may be aware that the GPS program at Vertex recently made changes to its co-pay assistance program. In September of 2022, a patient advocate at Vertex reached out to The Bonnell Foundation. The reason for the Zoom...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 16, 2023 | Podcasts
19 year old Atef Choudhury and 18 year old Naim Mashni are both sophomores at MSU, and they have found their voice. Atef has a nephew with CF and that is what made him want to start to raise awareness on campus. And so Cure Found MSU was born. In their young lives...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 9, 2023 | Podcasts
Did you know your child should visit a pediatric dentist? Did you know that people with CF generally have better dental health than the rest of the general population? Are you familiar with a toothbrush that connects to your phone and will let you know if you’re...
by Laura Bonnell | Jan 2, 2023 | Podcasts
Not everyone with CF enjoys the same level of care. Tragically it depends where you live. Some countries don’t even recognize the disease. If a country doesn’t recognize CF, that means medications aren’t available and there is no health insurance coverage. All of us...
by Laura Bonnell | Dec 5, 2022 | Podcasts
Attorney Jen Weber is 49 years old and waiting to have her third lung transplant. Weber lived in Indiana until this third transplant, when she had to move to Durham, North Carolina to be near her transplant hospital: Duke University Health. Weber also started a...
