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Podcast: Living With Cystic Fibrosis
Episode: Geneticist, Amy Gaviglio talks CF
Description: Cystic Fibrosis is not a disease that only impacts white people,  but for years and years, it’s been treated that way.  Now thanks to organizations like The National Organization of African Americans with Cystic fibrosis and their founders, Michele and Terry Wright telling the story of his late diagnosis (he was 54 years old), diagnosing people of color is slowly changing. Many people of color are not diagnosed at birth despite newborn screen because their rare genetic mutation may not be one of the mutations tested in the panel. The Hispanic community has certainly found this to be true. The...