Health

Couple's push for cystic fibrosis cure after learning daughter's life expectancy

Kate McIlwain
May 4 2022 - 7:00pm
Fight for a cure: Four-year-old Myla Sheaff's parents have raised more than $47,000 to try to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Picture: Sylvia Liber.
Fight for a cure: Four-year-old Myla Sheaff's parents have raised more than $47,000 to try to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Picture: Sylvia Liber.

When Ryan and Kristen Sheaff's four-year-old daughter Myla was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis about a year ago, they were told her life expectancy would be just 38 years of age.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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