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To help IBD symptoms, target your microbiome with these foods
A recent study on a new diet called the IBD-AID diet has shown that it may help. The diet focuses on correcting gut bacteria balance with probiotic and prebiotic foods. “Diet has a huge impact for IBD,” said Dr. David L. Suskind, a gastroenterologist with Seattle Children’s Hospital. He wasn’t involved in the research, but currently studies how […]
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A brief history of human disease genetics
Genetic discoveries have substantially improved our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for many rare and common diseases and driven development of novel preventative and therapeutic strategies. Medical innovation will increasingly focus on delivering care tailored to individual patterns of genetic predisposition. Main For almost all human diseases, individual susceptibility is, to some degree, influenced by genetic […]
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Crohn’s disease dragged my body to a point where it barely functioned
Today, I am healthier than I have been in a long time. But even so, this summer break alone has seen me in hospital twice to have abscesses removed, an outpatient flexible sigmoidoscopy, which is an exam to evaluate the lower part of the large intestine, and an MRI. The days are dwindling until the first […]
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What anyone with ulcerative colitis needs to know about colorectal cancer
Having a chronic illness like ulcerative colitis affects your health in so many ways, from the daily issues, like terrible pain, to the big picture, like an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The connection between ulcerative colitis and colorectal cancer can be scary and confusing, but it’s an important one to understand. Here’s what you need to know […]
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Adding curcumin to mesalamine may benefit patients with ulcerative colitis
To investigate the potential antiinflammatory properties of curcumin, study authors searched various databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar, SCOPUS, and Web of Science databases) to obtain randomized controlled trials assessing its use as combination therapy in the treatment of mild to moderate UC. “The outcomes assessed were the pooled odds of clinical response and remission as well […]
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Investigational hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) indications: inflammatory bowel disease
The recent HBOT experience HBOT for ulcerative colitis Until this point, all of the papers have concerned advanced CD, and none have combined UC cases in the mix. Pagoldh et al. designed a prospective, randomized, open-label clinical trial for HBOT intervention and UC, published in 2013. The primary objective of the study was to assess effects […]
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Anti-inflammatory effects of abdominal vagus nerve stimulation on experimental intestinal inflammation
A growing body of evidence has demonstrated that unilateral electrical stimulation of the left cervical vagus nerve is a feasible treatment in a rodent model of colitis (Meregnani et al., 2011; Sun et al., 2013). Following chemically-induced colitis in rats, cervical vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) improved the disease activity index (DAI: weight and stool quality), decreased […]
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Living with ulcerative colitis: turning Points
Watch the following stories here. Patient turned Counselor Six months into her marriage, Jennifer Martin’s new life started to fall apart. She began having serious digestive problems. She had been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, but this was worse than anything she had ever experienced. A Life-Changing Race It took Mary Beth Szydlowski a long time […]
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IBD is misunderstood
Although a 2017 review forecasted that there will be about 2.2 million Americans and about 0.5% of Western Europeans living with IBD in 2025, other reports suggested that the disease is not universally understood. “There are a lot of misunderstandings about IBD,” Paul Feuerstadt MD, FACG, AGAF said. For example, a survey of 409 general practitioners in […]
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Diet as therapy for IBD remains hindered by knowledge gaps
As patients with Crohn’s disease seek guidance on how to handle their condition, there remains a knowledge gap regarding what, if any, specific dietary recommendations could become a mainstay therapy, according to a presentation at Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2019. “We don’t have enough definitive research to say that one diet is the right answer for […]
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NewsTo help IBD symptoms, target your microbiome with these foods
Based on medical research, there’s no single plan that definitively offers relief. -
ResearchA brief history of human disease genetics
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease. -
Personal StoryCrohn’s disease dragged my body to a point where it barely functioned
I did not expect this to be my life; a 22-year-old female nursing student, chronically ill and fitted with a permanent ileostomy.
