Technology offers more accurate method to detect illness in minimally symptomatic cases

 

As the global COVID-19 pandemic has continued to rage across the globe, temperature recordings have been widely used as a screening tool to help detect infected individuals.

Classified as: COVID-19 research, screening
Published on: 19 Mar 2021

Half of all CF patients in Canada do not live to see the age of 34, and these are the best results in the world. Treatment is complex, requiring a daily routine that includes consuming many pills and physical therapy that can take up to two hours per day.

Robert’s case shows why it is high time we had newborn screening for CF in Quebec. - Montreal Gazette

 

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Classified as: cystic fibrosis, screen, screening, Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research Centre, cf
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Published on: 10 May 2017
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