Items Tagged ‘idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis’

September 20, 2019

Good news about the effectiveness of antifibrotics for IPF

By Elizabeth Zimmermann

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care, a research team led by Andrew Limper, M.D., a pulmonology and critical care physician at Mayo Clinic, evaluated the effectiveness of pirfenidone and nintedanib for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The researchers reported “the medications had an association with a reduced […]

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Tags: Andrew Limper, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, clinical trials, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, OptumLabs