Foundation hosts walk downtown to fight Crohn’s
Foundation hosts walk downtown to fight Crohn’s, colitis NeighborNewspapers.com, on Wed, 22 May 2013 10:21:17 -0700 Cindy Pickman’s daughter Lauren was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2009 when she was going into the sixth grade at Pace Academy. “It was awful,” the Sandy Springs resident said. “Things were going perfectly. She was very well-liked, she [...]
Ulcerative Colitis benefits from Fecal Transplants
Children with ulcerative colitis benefited from fecal transplants Family Practice News Digital Network Seven out of nine children with active ulcerative colitis experienced at least a temporary clinical response within 1 week of a series of fecal transplants – with four of the patients staying in complete remission 1 month later. The procedures … Tags: [...]
My Daily PACE Mobile Tool Available for People with Ulcerative Colitis
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) and DKBmed, LLC, have collaborated to create My Daily PACE, a mobile phone-based tool designed to help people with ulcerative colitis remember to take their medications and to track their symptoms. The tool is part of PACE UC: Persistence, Adherence, and Compliance Education in Ulcerative Colitis, an educational program [...]
Ulcerative Colitis Efficacy Safety Cost Analyses
Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) are treated with prednisolone (PSL), which causes adverse side effects. Extracorporeal granulocyte/monocyte adsorption (GMA) with an Adacolumn depletes elevated/activated myeloid lineage leucocytes as sources of inflammatory cytokines. We were interested to evaluate the efficacy, safety and the treatment cost for PSL and GMA. Methods: Forty-one patients with active UC had [...]
Ulcerative Colitis Marker IL-6 Indicates Disease Severity
Inflammatory marker IL-6 indicates disease severity, predicts treatment failure in ulcerative colitis. Children with severe ulcerative colitis are less likely to respond to treatment with elevated levels of inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6, according to recent results. In an ancillary study to the prospective, multicenter OSCI study, researchers evaluated levels of 12 inflammatory cytokines in serum samples [...]
Scientists Find Key to Growth of Bad Bacteria in IBD
Scientists have long puzzled over why “bad” bacteria such as E. coli can thrive in the guts of those with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), causing serious diarrhea. Now UC Davis researchers have discovered the answer one that may be the first step toward finding new and better treatments for IBD. The researchers discovered a biological [...]
Ulcerative Colitis Global Clinical Trials Review
Ulcerative Colitis Global Clinical Trials Review, H2, 2012 New ReportSBWire (press release)This report provides elemental information and data relating to the clinical trials on Ulcerative Colitis. It includes an overview of the trial numbers and their…
Latest Campaign Crohn’s and Colitis UK
For their latest campaign Crohn’s and Colitis UK are carrying out a survey of young people (in the UK only) aged 16-29 with IBD, finding out your thoughts on a number of topics such as medication, surgery, transition, education and relationships. They really need as many people as possible to take part so that they [...]
Ulcerative Colitis Receives FDA Approval of UCERIS
Santarus Receives FDA Approval of UCERIS (Budesonide) for the Induction of …MarketWatch (press release)Santarus, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNTS) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved UCERIS(TM) (budesonide) extended release…
Ulcerative Colitis Treatment for children critical
Treatment for ulcerative colitis in children critical to ensure proper growthChicago TribuneANSWER: Ulcerative colitis is a lifelong disease that usually requires medication to control. All medications have some risks that you, your daughter and her do…
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