Nebulizers are commonly used for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and other respiratory diseases.

About 20 of cases of cystic fibrosis present with meconium ileus, while approximately 20 of one series of cases of meconium ileus did not have cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis is an example of a disease where you just have a bad ingredient and you have a disease, and we can actually make a direct correspondence between the ingredient and the disease.

The large organization award went to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's video on a new medication to treat CF which is benefiting some patients, although efforts are still needed to find treatments for other patients.

The fibrosis in cirrhosis can lead to destruction of other normal tissues in the liver including the sinusoids, the space of Disse, and other vascular structures, which leads to altered resistance to blood flow in the liver and portal hypertension.

An example is cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease it is rare in most parts of Asia but relatively common in Europe and in populations of European descent.

This is especially the case for people with cystic fibrosis, due to the bacterial colonisation commonly found within such patients' lungs if only one lung were transplanted, bacteria in the native lung could potentially infect the newly transplanted organ.