Richard Barth

Jun 13, 2023 | acpjournals.org | Yair J. Blumenfeld |Susan R. Hintz |Richard Barth |Natali Aziz

Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-shortening, autosomal recessive disease affecting approximately 150 000 people worldwide (1). The clinical manifestations of CF result from abnormalities in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein, and 80% to 90% of cases in populations of Northern European ancestry are due to a biallelic pathogenic variant (F508del) in the CFTR gene (2).

Mar 27, 2023 | imprintnews.org | Richard Barth

Roxanne Asgarian’s powerful new book, “We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America” spotlights one of child welfare services’ most  correctable deficiencies. When foster care adoptions began, the general belief was that adopted families should be treated like birth families and basically left alone, with the not insignificant exception of receiving adoption subsidies. Some families even refused adoption subsidies because they viewed them as stigmatizing.