Posts by: Patricia Silva PhD

Patricia Silva PhD

Patrícia holds her PhD in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has studied Applied Biology at Universidade do Minho and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work has been focused on molecular genetic traits of infectious agents such as viruses and parasites.

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

Younger Immigrant Children in Canada Found to Be at Higher Risk for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Canada recently showed that children of immigrants to Canada have an increased ... Read more

March 13, 2015March 13, 2015

Two Specific Proteins Allow the Exclusion of IBD in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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A new study led by researchers at University of Michigan Health System recently analyzed the importance of several screening tests to exclude the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in ... Read more

February 20, 2015February 20, 2015

Oncobiologics Announces Successful Clinical Trial for IBD Treatment

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Biopharmaceutical company Oncobiologics, Inc. recently announced that its product ONS-3010, an adalimumab (Humira®) biosimilar candidate, has met the primary endpoints in its first clinical trial. ONS-3010 was developed as a biosimilar of adalimumab, ... Read more

February 9, 2015February 10, 2015

Ferric Maltol Suggested as Promising New Therapy for Iron Deficiency Anemia in ‪#IBD‬ Patients

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A multicenter phase-3 clinical trial study published in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, revealed that ferric maltol, a ferric iron compound, has the potential to be used as a new ... Read more