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Healthy Living: Breathing Easier

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Cystic Fibrosis is caused by a genetic abnormality.

It results in thick, sticky mucus building up in the lungs and digestive tract, leading to life-threatening infections and difficulty maintaining weight.

Doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital believes a new oral drug could change that.

V-X-770 targets one of the genetic mutations that leads to CF, and reverses it.

The New England Journal of Medicine calls it a milestone. 


Patients who've tried it say its changed their lives.


It's a breakthrough in the treatment of a lung disease that typically kills sufferers by their mid-thirties.