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 Years
–
DG 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/CT
–
Medical 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...