Could a dose of hookworms provide a medication-free alternative to people with inflammatory bowel disease? The Malaghan Institute's Hookworm Therapy team, who recently published the results from their year-long clinical study, ...
Jun 16, 2023
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Inflammatory bowel disease often coexists with periodontal disease. This is shown in new publications from a European research project that explored the connection between the two diseases.
Dec 13, 2022
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For many years, the Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease, or SES-CD—a scoring method used in colonoscopies to measure healing and health of the gut—was the "gold standard" for evaluating Crohn's disease patients, ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Getting the COVID-19 vaccination strengthened one type of immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients even though they were taking immunosuppressant medication, according to investigators ...
May 23, 2022
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Growth impairment, a common complication of Crohn's disease in children, occurs more often in males than females, but the reasons are unclear. Now, a physician-scientist from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian ...
Jul 10, 2021
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University of Texas at Dallas researchers have designed a wearable device that monitors sweat for biomarkers that could signal flare-ups of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Sep 28, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in University of Otago researchers, in collaboration with others in New Zealand, fast-tracking development of a smartphone application (app) to help improve care for people with Crohn's ...
May 13, 2020
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A new study published last month in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases has found that one in six persons with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experience a substance use disorder in their lifetime.
Mar 18, 2020
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A research team led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found that a drug approved by the FDA to treat rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis can repair permeability defects in the ...
Dec 4, 2019
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Treatments for incurable bowel conditions may be a step closer following the discovery of a key molecule associated with disease flare-ups.
May 3, 2018
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