Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encores Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2
Once a death sentence, cystic fibrosis now has a life-saving treatment. Follow the decades-long scientific quest, fueled by desperate parents, that led to this revolutionary breakthrough.
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Credits: Produced and directed by Catherine Gale. Edited by Cathy Houlihan, Bruce Law.
BASED IN PART ON: Breath From Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever. by Bijal P. Trivedi
