Colitis News

Ulcerative colitis and similar inflammatory bowel diseases have caused pain and discomfort to millions of people.

High school students are making a difference with a telethon. They're putting on the live telethon to raise money for Crohn's disease and Colitis.

It is estimated to grow reasonably by 5.1% annually for the next seven years to reach $1.9 billion by 2015.

I have Crohn's Colitis and also use cannabis to treat its symptoms. It seems to help avoid flare-ups, and with adjustments to diet you can live an almost normal life.

Fernando Pisani has some colour in his cheeks and bounce in his step five weeks after his most recent ulcerative colitis scare that sent him home from a road trip when the Edmonton Oilers were in Atlanta.

Teen Bash 2010 is a benefit concert organized for teens by teens, blazing a path to bash ignorance and create awareness about autoimmune diseases among youth in the greater Puget Sound.

Ulcerative colitis is characterized by inflammation of the colon and the lining of the rectum.

Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin is expected to speak at an annual meeting of the Maryland Farm Bureau today and later tour Ocean City's beaches.

Dear Dr. Gott: I have a relative who is nearly 50 years old. About 30 years ago, he suffered with gastroenteritis and was on Donnatal.

Santarus, Inc. , a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that its collaboration partner, Cosmo Technologies Ltd., a subsidiary of Cosmo Pharmaceuticals SpA , has completed enrollment of 514 patients in the European Phase III clinical trial to evaluate budesonide MMX administered over eight weeks for the induction of remission of mild ...

Representatives of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada named Kathi Evans the province's gutsiest citizen.

SUMMERSIDE Tiffany MacPhee is one gutsy teen. For the past five years the 14-year-old has lived with Crohn's disease.

Marla C. Dubinsky, M.D., director of the Cedars-Sinai Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and one of the worlda s leading researchers studying the disease, has been named the Abe and Claire Levine Chair in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

ScienceDaily a ' The probiotic, Bacillus polyfermenticus, can help mice recover from colitis, a new study has found.

It's rare for Scott Bowling to discuss the illness he's been battling since childhood, his surgeries or his cancer treatments.

Thornhill father is Ontario's "gutsiest" Thornhill November 26, 2009 10:37 AM When not just one but two members of your family suffer from Crohn's disease, and when you manage to transform that hardship into $50,000 to help find a cure, you deserve the title of Ontario's "Gutsiest Ontarian".A ?A That's the honour bestowed upon Aki Chencinski, of ...

The latest issue of the Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics identifies factors associated with radiation exposure in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Frederick resident Keith Krause said he is finding some good results with Remicade in his fight against ulcerative colitis which carries with it symptoms such as constant diarrhea, weight loss and a lack of energy.

Supporters of the Fairfield /Westchester Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America teed off at the Fairview Country Club in Greenwich last month for the nonprofit's 17th Annual Charity Golf Classic.

Imogene, Iowa, native Amy Jardon is running for her life, so to speak, in a marathon in Las Vegas on Dec.