Crohn's / IBD News From Medical News Today




1» Crohn's Disease: Risk Of Surgery Lower Than Reported In Recent Studies
      Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT

A new multi-center study of 854 children with Crohn's disease shows a 5-year cumulative risk of bowel surgery is significantly lower than reported in recent studies...


2» Prometheus Launches The First Serogenetic Test To Predict Risk Of Complications From Crohn's Disease
      Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT

Prometheus Laboratories Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical and diagnostic company, announced the commercial launch of its proprietary PROMETHEUS® Crohn's Prognostic test...


3» Crohn's Disease Could Be Treated With Banana Plantain Fibers
      Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT

Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea. Researchers are working with biotechnology company, Provexis, to test a new plantain based food product that could treat patients with the disease...


4» Potential New Treatments For Bowel Diseases With The Reshaping Of The Gut Microbiome
      Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Home to a diverse range of microorganisms, a healthy human body contains at least tenfold more bacteria cells than human cells. The most abundant and diverse microbial community resides in the intestine, and changes to the gut microbiota are linked with diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease...


5» Patient Symptoms Are Not Reliable Indicators Of Crohn's Disease Recurrence, Pitt Researchers Find
      Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT

The Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI), which relies on patient symptoms to determine whether or not Crohn's disease is active, may not reliably indicate whether a patient's disease has returned after corrective surgery, according to a study published in this month's issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.According to Miguel Regueiro, M.D...


6» Encouraging Data On Preventing Crohn's Disease Recurrence
      Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Biological agents may play an important role in maintaining remission in Crohn's disease, according to two new studies in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. "Post-surgical recurrence of Crohn's disease occurs very frequently...


7» Colitis Patients Diagnosed Later In Life Tend To Have Better Disease Outcomes
      Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Adults diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after age 50 are more likely to achieve remission from their symptoms than patients diagnosed at younger ages, even when those patients receive similar treatments, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...


8» The Risk Of Malignancy In Children May Be Increased By TNF Blockers
      Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received reports of malignancies in children using tumor necrosis factor a (TNF) blockers, raising concerns of an associated risk and prompting an investigation...


9» Computational Model Of Colon Inflammation Singles Out Dangerous Immune Cells
      Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have constructed a mathematical and computational model of inflammatory bowel disease that allows researchers to simulate the cellular and molecular changes underlying chronic inflammation in humans...


10» Vitamin D Receptor Emerges As A Key Player Amid The Murk Of 'Gut Flora'
      Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:00:00 PDT

Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check...