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Celebrities With Crohn’s Disease

Kevin Dineen: The Canadian right wing struggled with Crohn’s disease throughout his 19-year National Hockey League career, particularly in the early years after his 1987 diagnosis. Dineen, now coach of the Florida Panthers, tells USA Hockey magazine that the disease was “a real eye-opening experience” because there’s no quick fix. “This is a chronic, debilitating [...]

June 4, 2012No CommentRead More

IDEAS Twitter hockey ticket giveaway

The Prize IDEAS is giving away two (2) tickets to an Olympic hockey game in Vancouver, BC as the prize in a Twitter contest to raise awareness of intestinal diseases. Hockey is one of the most sought-after tickets to the games and you could be walking into that venue to catch live, in-person hockey action, [...]

February 3, 2010No CommentRead More

NHL player Fernando Pisani speaks out about colitis

Back in September, we wrote a post about Edmonton Oilers forward Fernando Pisani missing part of the 2007-08 hockey season due to his ulcerative colitis. After seeking treatment, he was playing again by December. You can read an excellent post from Pisani about his experience with ulcerative colitis, his continuing treatment, and his return to [...]

May 6, 2008No CommentRead More