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Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness - 4
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters, I’m Joe Balintfy. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or IPF is a lung condition with unknown causes and currently no cure. Dr. James Kiley at the NIH says clinical trials are under way.
Kiley: one of them looking at current ways to manage IPF through pharmacotherapy, another looking at carbon monoxide as a treatment for IPF. So there are a number of trials going on that are addressing the problem. We also know that the pharmaceutical industry is very interested in this disease and they’re conducting a couple of trials of some very novel agents that may be prospects for the future.
Narrator: For more on IPF visit www.nhlbi.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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