Living with Crohn’s Disease
Living with Crohn’s Disease Health24.com, on Fri, 24 May 2013 20:26:38 -0700 When I met Dr Grobler he did a colonoscopy and diagnosed me with severe Crohns Disease. He started me on medication immediately, namely Azapress (150mg per day) and Panafcort (80mg per day). This helped for a while until about February 2009, … Los [...]
AbbVie’s New Crohn’s Disease Drug Candidate
AbbVie’s drug Humira is currently the best-selling medication on the planet, and it is approved to treat a wide range of diseases, including Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis. Recently, the company announced a partnership with a small biotech company called Galapagos to develop a JAK1 inhibitor for Crohn’s Disease. In the following video, health-care analyst [...]
Villous atrophy in Crohn’s disease linked to hip fracture
Villous atrophy in Crohn’s disease linked to hip fracture Healio Researchers evaluated 7,146 patients in Sweden with histologic evidence of Crohn’s disease (CD). All participants had undergone follow-up biopsy between 6 months and 5 years of CD diagnosis. The risk for fracture among patients who experienced … and more » Tags: biopsy, crohn s disease, Crohns, [...]
AbbVie, Galapagos extend JAK1 pact into Crohn’s Disease
AbbVie ($ABBV) has made meds for inflammatory gastrointestinal ills a major theme of its deal-making activities this week. The North Chicago, IL-based drug giant and Belgium’s Galapagos ($GLPG) have agreed to expand their collaboration on an oral JAK1 inhibitor to include Crohn’s disease. Galapagos plans to fund and launch a midstage study of the compound, [...]
Crohn’s Disease Diet and Nutrition
PHOENIX — More than a million people in the United States suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. And while we don’t know what causes them, we do know that genetic and environmental components are at the root of these autoimmune diseases. Crohn’s disease can affect the entire digestive tract while [...]
Crohn’s Disease and Pregnancy Mayo Clinic
Dr. Sunanda Kane discusses women with Crohn’s disease who want to get pregnant, issues around the time of birth, and breast feeding. Also discusses taking medications for Crohn’s disease during pregnancy and questions surrounding the chance of passing along Crohn’s disease to the baby. Crohn’s Disease & Pregnancy-Mayo Clinic Tags: crohn s disease, Crohns, mayo [...]
Nightmare on Crohn’s St
Ibrahim ‘Obby’ Khan is an offensive lineman who practically could not eat. There may be no greater football oxymoron, yet until recently it was a fact associated with a painful existence for the good-natured Winnipeg Blue Bombers veteran, who is nearing the finishing line of a remarkable comeback. The starting point was five years ago [...]
Adalimumab Effective for Crohn’s Disease
Adalimumab Effective for Crohn’s Disease n a double blind, multicenter trial in the Netherlands, researchers evaluated 76 adults with Crohn’s disease (CD) and perianal fistulizing disease treated with adalimumab once every 2 weeks along with either placebo (n=39) or 500 mg ciprofloxacin (CIP, n=37) twice daily for 12 weeks. Adalimumab was continued until completion of [...]
Cowboys vs Crohns
Cowboys vs Crohns Riding for a Cure Reilly is our second Crohnie to write a bio about his experience with Crohn’s Disease. Reilly is currently a senior at DeSales high school and hopes to win a baseball championship this spring. He only hits home runs. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of [...]
Wrestling Coach Fighting Crohns
Wrestling Coach Fighting Crohns., A former high school wrestling star struck by a chronic disease in adulthood is planning a comeback, this time in mixed martial arts. Mike Brown started wrestling when he was in the sixth grade. That was the year he also won his first tournament. After that, he wrestled for Central Davis [...]
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