I Hate IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)

Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis in the News

Restroom law ensures those with conditions have access
Houston Chronicle July 20, 2007
Everyone has had the experience: out in public, in the middle of the store, when natrure calls.

New Crohn's Disease Drug Shows Promise
CBC News July 18, 2007
Certolizumab pegol, which works in a similar fashion to standard medicines, isn't on the market yet and hasn't been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Still...

Jo-Ann Fabrics Refuses To Let Customer Use Bathroom, Even As She Suffers Diarrhea Right in Front Of Them
The Consumerist July 16, 2007
I was shopping in the Jo-Ann Fabrics store in Logansport, Indiana.  While shopping I suddenly experienced unexpected and intense diarrhea...

Kids With Crohn's Disease Find Comfort, Leading-edge Treatment At Pediatric Infusion Center

Medical News Today - July 06, 2007
Seventeen-year-old Eliot Drieband explains what it's like to have Chron's diesese a type of inflammatory bowel disease...

Crohn's disease: 'I won't let this illness control me'
Independent, UK - 06/19/2007
Clare Lewis endured years of drug treatment for Crohn's disease - but the agonising pains remained. Then she found the best cure lay in her own hands By...

Natalizumab Effective for Active Crohn's Disease
Medscape (subscription) - 06/08/2007
"These studies confirm that natalizumab can treat active Crohn's disease patients," lead author Dr. Stephan R. Targan told Reuters Health.

Infliximab Effective for Ulcerative Colitis for Up to 2 YearsDG News 05/24/07
Extensions trials of infliximab therapy for ulcerative colitis show that infliximab responders with...

First-Step Test For Patients With Crohn's Disease Should Be PET/CTMedical News Today (press release), UK 06/08/07
The molecular imaging power of PET/CT is invaluable in noninvasively monitoring Crohn's disease - a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal...

Crohn’s drug manufacturer giving out scholarships
ChronicleHerald.ca, Canada 06/02/07
Drug-maker UCB Pharma Canada has announced the creation of six one-time $5000 scholarships for Canadians diagnosed with the inflammatory bowel disease...

FDA to weigh Tysabri for Crohn's disease Checkbiotech.org (press release), Switzerland – 05/31/07
Elan of Dublin, Ireland, and Biogen Idec of Cambridge, Mass., applied in December for FDA approval of Tysabri for Crohn's sufferers. The disease most...

Capsule endoscopy effective in diagnosing gastrointestinal bleeding and Crohn's disese in small children
News-Medical.net, Australia – 05/22/07
In expediting the diagnosis and treatment of small bowel disease. In detecting the presence, activity and severity of small bowel Crohn's disease...

Living with Crohn's News & Observer, NC - 06/01/07
Pangle is among hundreds of Triangle residents who have Crohn's disease, an illness that causes extreme intestinal problems and can lead to severe...

Walkers taking steps for Crohn's
Timmins Daily Press, Canada - 05/31/07
A local teenager diagnosed with Crohn's disease is asking Timmins residents to join him at Gillies Lake on Sunday for the ninth-annual Heel 'n' Wheel-a-thon...

Stem Cells Aid Healing of Crohn's-Related Perianal Fistulas ...
DG News - 05/28/07
... fistula in patients with Crohn's disease or cryptoglandular disease results in a high rate of healing compared with standard treatment with fibrin glue...

First Annual World Crohn's and Colitis Day May 23
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 05/23/07
The movement was born from a documentary film, "True Guts: The Struggle with and Triumph Over Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis", about IBD created to...