Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Celebrates Landmark Year for Awareness, Advocacy, Research

Highlighting the impact of the disease on people from all walks of life, in 2008 we saw the loss of Odetta, the civil rights legend and singer, as PF contributed to her death, and cartoonist Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck. In death, they joined other such luminaries as Marlon Brando, Evel Knievel, Robert Goulet, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, and Peter Benchley, all of whom were victims of the dreaded disease.