Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the collective term used to describe ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. These conditions cause diarrhea, rectal bleeding, fatigue, weight loss, and rectal bleeding. These…
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an autoimmune condition which causes inflammation throughout the digestive tract. There are two main forms of the condition- Crohn's disease and the…
According to a story from Reuters, a new website developed by the American Gastroenterological Association is meant to help women that have inflammatory bowel disease have safe and healthy pregnancies.…
Perhaps the most difficult thing about rare disease research is that not only do the conditions affect only a small portion of the population, but like every diagnosis, they affect…
When you're told your child has a rare, life-threatening condition you exhaust every resource trying to find answers. But the rarer the condition, the harder those answers are to find…
In 2013 researchers discovered something interesting about the protein BH4. They found that by inhibiting the protein they could reduce patient's pain. A drug was created called Quartet, and it…
All manner of microbes make their home in our intestines. This delicately balanced system is known as the microbiome. A recent study shows that certain cells in the intestines regulate…
You recently learned that your child has inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Now you’re taking an important step: learning about the condition, how it’s treated, and how your child can learn…
The goal has always been to better manage and get a diagnosis earlier for inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The newest study at the University of…
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