Posts by: Kara Elam

News

A collaborative project between researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Curant Health has produced the first study to report long-term adherence data for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Adherence ... Read more

August 24, 2016August 25, 2016

Innovative Surgical Care Plan for Crohn’s Disease Complication Appears to Improve Patient Outcomes

Crohn's Disease, News

A collaborative effort between clinical physicians and surgeons has resulted in the first published surgical care plan focused on the management of septic perianal Crohn’s disease (SPCD). This evidence-based care plan ... Read more

August 17, 2016August 17, 2016

Antipsychotic Seen to Work to Control Gut Inflammation in Early Study

IBD News, News

The immune system of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans can be manipulated with antipsychotic drugs — drugs that affect the nervous system — to control inflammation in the gut, researchers reported. The finding suggests ... Read more

July 24, 2015July 24, 2015

Researchers Discover a Unique Enzyme That May Contribute to IBD

IBD News, News

Recently, researchers from the Institute of Food Research (IFR) released results from a study in which they discovered a previously unknown enzymatic activity of gut bacteria that could contribute to intestinal ... Read more

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015

Celgene to Acquire Receptos, Advancing the Potential of Ozanimod for the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis

News, Ulcerative colitis

This week Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company engaged primarily in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases through gene and protein ... Read more

July 8, 2015July 8, 2015

McMaster Researchers Publish Two Important Studies Testing Fecal Transplantation to Treat Ulcerative Colitis

News, Ulcerative colitis

This year, researchers from the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute at McMaster University (MU) in Canada, have released results from two preliminary studies showing that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) may be ... Read more

May 14, 2015May 14, 2015

Researchers Find Evidence Confirming Economic Burden Caused by C. difficile Infections in IBD, Other Diseases

IBD News

Recently, a group of interdisciplinary researchers from the University of Toronto (UT) released study findings from a systematic review of currently published research on inflammatory bowel disease and other diseases ... Read more

April 21, 2015

Researchers Find That Chromoendoscopy for IBD Surveillance Fails to Increase Dysplasia Detection

News

Recently, researchers from the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands released results from a comparative study that looked at the capacity of tests to detect colorectal dysplasia in inflammatory bowel ... Read more

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

US and Canadian Healthcare Systems Can Implement Smoking Cessation Programs to Address Crohn’s Disease

Crohn's Disease, News

Researchers from the Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Canada, recently released findings from a study in which they performed a cost-utility analysis of funding smoking cessation programs for patients ... Read more

March 24, 2015March 24, 2015

Possible Association Between Long-Term Oral Contraceptive Use and Risk of Crohn’s Disease in Women

News

Texas Medical School Alum and former Internal Medicine resident at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dr. Hamed Khalili, MD, MPH, is seeing renewed interest in one of his ... Read more