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Saturday 5 November 2011

Cystic fibrosis drug changes woman's life, revives Broadway dreams

Lindsay Shipp just wanted to keep her lungs.

When she was nine months old, Shipp was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis -- a genetic disease that, among other symptoms, causes thick mucus to form in the lungs. The life expectancy is 37, and most people who die from it succumb to a lung infection.

"I know it's kind of a morbid thought," she said, "but I was like, 'Alright, these are my singing lungs, these are my dancing lungs -- I want to keep them.'   Full Read

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