Interstitial Lung Diseases Archives - Page 4 of 5 - Breathing Matters

Planning a Holiday Abroad? … Are You Fit to Fly?

Flying in an aeroplane is the equivalent to being 5000 to 6000 feet up a mountain. Think of a mountain twice as high as Ben Nevis, or being a third […]

IPF: The Game Is On, The Game Is Changing …

Until recently, we have had very little to offer patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). The disease is on the increase, tends to affect men in their late middle age, […]

My Amazing Father, David John de Warrenne

We recently lost my Dad, David John de Warrenne, to an awful disease called Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, and pneumonia. Dad was such a lovely and truly wonderful man loved by […]

Marie’s Ongoing Story of Optimism

Further to Marie’s article on our website at the end of 2013, Marie still keeps her chin up despite ongoing obstacles. Here is an update that she wanted to share […]

Pulmonary Fibrosis Wish List

£5 – Equipment to take blood for testing antibodies for a patient with IPF £50 – Allows us to grow individual fibroblasts (these are the cells that produce the scarring) in the […]

Waiting to Jump for Joy Again

MY ONGOING TRANSPLANT JOURNEY, by Marie Maldonado Ten years ago, breathing started to become painful for me and climbing stairs became a minor problem. I was diagnosed with ‘fibrosing alveolitis’ […]

Breathing Matters’ New Lawrence Matz Clinical Research Fellow

We are delighted to announce that Dr Theresia Mikolasch has been appointed to the post of Lawrence Matz Clinical Research Fellow. This is such an important appointment. Our vision is […]

Having a Lung Transplant

By John Beverton My GP changed my life by recognising early that I was not well and referred me to my consultant at UCLH. I can clearly recall being told […]

Richard Sainsbury: The Story Behind the Charity Single, Happier Times

By Sasquatch Bob I didn’t know my girlfriend’s father, Richard Sainsbury, that long really, just a little over three years in fact. I knew him long enough to be deeply impressed and inspired […]

Stark Facts about Pulmonary Fibrosis

Men are nearly twice as likely as women to suffer from IPF There are 8000 new cases of IPF every year in the UK. More than 30,000 people are living […]

Join The Breathtember Challenge this September

September is Breathtember – Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month Get out of Breath for Breathtember Tweet Tweet! To help raise awareness, we would ask that supporters tweet different challenges each day […]

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