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Trinity Scientists Uncover Changes in Proteins that Regulate ‘Gut Leakiness … HealthCanal.com, on Fri, 24 May 2013 17:11:09 -0700 Associate Professor, Maria O’Sullivan at Trinity’s School of Medicine and St James’s Hospital and colleagues, showed that changes in specific proteins may contribute to a ‘leaky-gut’ wall which may have important implications for common chronic digestive [...]

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Colon cancer – MayoClinic.com http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/colon-cancer/DS00035 Colon cancer — Comprehensive overview covers signs, symptoms and treatment of colon and rectal cancers. Meet the Newbies to the GAC | Fight Colorectal Cancer http://fightcolorectalcancer.org/policy/call-on_congress/accomodations Newest members of Fight Colorectal Cancer’s Grassroots Action Committee (GAC), the group who plans our Call-on Congress events for colon cancer policy in Washington [...]

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Celiac disease could be more common than previously believed Toronto NewsFIX, on Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:13 -0700 A study reveals that celiac disease is as common among the American population as among Europeans. Celiac disease is an inherited sensitivity to gluten in wheat, barley and rye products. It affects one in 130 or so [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Researchers trying to find the key to a mysterious group of digestive ailments have located a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Their discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses and intervention for individuals still asymptomatic. A team of scientists from the University of Cincinnati analyzed data from the Department of Defense Serum Repository [...]

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Excellent piece in the NY Times Magazine by @michaelpollan It happened on March 7. That’s when I opened my e-mail to find a huge, processor-choking file of charts and raw data from a laboratory located at the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Here were the names of the hundreds of bacterial species [...]

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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 [...]

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To the Medicare program, observation services include short-term treatment and assessment for the purpose of determining whether a beneficiary can be discharged from a hospital or will require further treatment as an inpatient. For hospitals, a physician’s order for observation services will frequently create a compliance headache that can result in reimbursement denials, recovery audit [...]

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Participants in a weight-loss program experienced improvement in GERD symptoms with successful weight loss in a study presented at Digestive Disease Week.In a prospective cohort study, researchers evaluated weight, calorie intake and responses to a validated reflux disease questionnaire (RDQ) in 213 obese and overweight participants enrolled in a structured weight-loss program. [...]

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