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Hannah Witton: ulcerative colitis podcast
In this debut episode of Chronic, Lucy Pasha-Robinson is joined by sex educator and YouTube star Hannah Witton, who lives with ulcerative colitis. We dive head first into that enduring question that drives so many of us living with chronic illness round the bend – why are people so keen to offer up unsolicited advice […]
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Early, tight control of Crohn’s disease may have lasting benefits
Early approaches to treatment of Crohn’s disease followed a step-up algorithm in which the newer medications would only be used if the patient did not benefit from established therapies. This sequential approach — termed step therapy — has more recently been called into question, as studies have repeatedly shown that the newer drugs for Crohn’s […]
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Cure found for rare form of inflammatory bowel disease
The disease, called G6PC3 deficiency, affects around one in a million people and causes inflammation of the bowel, as well as lung infections. The team also showed that in affected patients, white blood cells called neutrophils trigger inflammation when exposed to gut bacteria, despite treatment with commonly available biological therapies. The patients were treated at the Royal […]
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Team develops wearable sensor to help those with inflammatory bowel disease
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have designed a wearable device that monitors sweat for biomarkers that could signal flare-ups of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A team of bioengineers demonstrated the wristwatch-like device in a proof-of-concept study funded by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and published online July 28 and in the October print edition […]
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Prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome-type symptoms in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in remission
Summary Background Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) often report symptoms compatible with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which might have an effect on psychological health. However, previous estimates of the magnitude of this issue have not accounted for ongoing inflammation as the potential cause. We updated a previous systematic review and meta-analysis to determine prevalence […]
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The association between inflammatory potential of diet and disease activity
Abstract Background Diet may play a role in disease status in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. We tested whether the inflammatory potential of diet, based on a summation of pro- and anti-inflammatory nutrients, is associated with disease activity in patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Methods Participants completed a disease activity questionnaire (short Crohn’s […]
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What is brain fog and what causes it?
Having difficulty concentrating. Feeling confused or forgetful. An inability to focus. Slow thinking or not thinking clearly. A kind of haziness or mental fatigue. Any one of these symptoms can be described as brain fog, says clinical neuropsychologist Caroline Gurvich of Monash University, whose research focuses on cognition and women’s mental health. But although it’s […]
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Cell therapy designed to treat inflammatory bowel disease
The UPV/EHU’s NanoBioCel research group has for many years been developing systems enabling cells to be used as drugs. Cell therapy raises hopes for treating those diseases for which there are as yet no effective pharmacological solutions. Biomaterials, a leading journal in the field of materials sciences and medicine, has just published the paper ‘Multifunctional […]
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Blueberry compound may provide new inflammatory bowel disease therapy
They believe it can provide a potential therapeutic option for chronic inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The team, led by Chiharu Nishiyama, PhD, published its study “Pterostilbene reduces colonic inflammation by suppressing dendritic cell activation and promoting regulatory T cell development” in The FASEB Journal. The compound is similar to another phytocompound known to […]
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Crohn’s patient ‘vomits 30 times a day’ and has cardiac arrests
Jessica Elliott, 25, suffers from an extreme form of Crohn’s disease meaning she vomits dozens of times a day. In this year alone she has had three cardiac arrests and had to be revived using a defibrillator. Her family have launched an appeal to raise money for a pioneering operation and have so far raised […]
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