Posttraumatic stress symptoms afflict patients with IBD

urvey results supported prior research that found one-quarter to one-third of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases report posttraumatic stress symptoms linked to their disease experience.

Fitness With Crohn’s or Colitis

If you are in the middle of a flare-up or hit by a wave of fatigue, exercising might be the last thing you feel like doing.

Engineered organism could diagnose Crohn’s disease flareups

Bioengineers create pH-sensing gut bacteria to diagnose inflammatory bowel disease.

A gut feeling

Scientists link genetic makeup of bacteria in the human gut to several human diseases.

Support Groups- Do I or Don’t I

From the very time Support Groups were introduced as a means of peer support, the decision facing people whether to the meeting has been the source of many unwanted ‘butterflies’…to go or not to go!

Diet–microbiota interactions in inflammatory bowel disease

Accumulating evidence suggests that the gut microbiota plays pivotal roles in the regulation of intestinal homeostasis and IBD pathogenesis.

Podcast: Perivascular nerve dysfunction in inflammatory bowel disease

What is the effect of vascular function in the pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)?

Patients’ experiences and challenges in living with inflammatory bowel disease

The purpose of this study was to explore patient experiences in living with IBD and uncover factors that contribute to psychological distress.

The arthritis connection to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): why has it taken so long to understand it?

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) associated arthritis is a subgroup of spondyloarthritis (SpA) that has suffered from lack of recognition in rheumatology clinical and research circles for over 100 years.

You’ve Got Guts – May Is Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Month

May is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Month People living with Crohn’s and colitis urged to speak out and #FlushTheStigma By 2022 it’s expected more than 100,000 people in Australia will be living with Crohn’s and colitis

Sarcopenia and vitamin D deficiency in patients with Crohn’s disease: Pathological conditions that should be linked together

Sarcopenia is a prevalent condition in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), representing an independent predictor factor for the development of major postoperative complications.

Probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus shows promise for treating inflammatory bowel disease and other intestinal inflammation disorders

Probiotic strain LA1 has a therapeutic effect that both prevents and treats intestinal inflammatory disorders caused by “leaky gut,” report researchers in The American Journal of Pathology.