Paikea = important mythic Maori ancestor of the East Coast tribes, especially the Ngati Porou tribe, of New Zealand's North Island. Various legends say he came from Hawaiki to Aotearoa [New Zealand], riding on the back of a taniwha [whale].
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease isolated to the lung. It is a type of interstitial lung disease, which is a group of 200 diseases with similar symptoms but different causes. In IPF, lung tissue becomes scarred.
Until recently, patients in the U.S. suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a form of pulmonary fibrosis in which the cause is unknown, had no drug treatment approved by FDA for this debilitating, incurable, and terminal condition.owever, this month, FDA approved Ofev (nintedanib) and Esbriet (pirfenidone) , two important new therapies for the treatment of patients with IPF. Both drugs are âfirst-in-classâ products that offer new hope for patients in the U.S. with IPF.