Research on Cystic Fibrosis

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Abstract
Geneticists call cystic fibrosis the most common lethal inherited disease of whites. Pediatricians are pleased that affected persons live twice as long as they did a decade ago, and internists now encounter it as a "new" disease. An increasing number of investigators from all backgrounds are fascinated by cystic fibrosis, reporting tantalizing clues about its pathogenesis and diagnosis. Pediatric house officers, however, still find it easier to remain uninvolved in the psychological and social problems that accompany such a chronic, relentless disease. For patients and their parents, cystic fibrosis remains a grim sentence, usually prolonged through an unhappy adolescence to . . .