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IBD Innovate 2021: Accelerating solutions for people with IBD

December 27, 2021

New solutions, innovative products, and precision medicine are all on the horizon for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). That’s the message that came through loud and clear at IBD Innovate 2021, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s flagship event that brings key stakehold...

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How to recognize and avoid misinformation about IBD

September 29, 2021

Michelle Lampariello

When you were diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), you probably went on the internet to research your disease. Within seconds, you had a vast web of information about symptoms, treatments, and other resources at your fingertips.  According to the Pew Internet Project, over ...

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Opioid use as a driver of cost of IBD care

May 14, 2021

Rebecca Kaplan

Approximately 50-70% of IBD patients report experiencing abdominal pain at some point during their disease journey. But when that pain becomes chronic, treating it can become difficult and costly. In fact, the results from the Foundation’s Cost of IBD Care study from 2019 found that pre...

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PIANO Study offers hope and comfort to prospective and current IBD moms

April 9, 2021

Natalie Hayden

When you live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the question of how your Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis is going to impact conception, pregnancy, and motherhood is top of mind for many women since most of us receive our diagnosis during or...

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Does smoking, alcohol, or coffee put you at risk for Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis?

March 15, 2021

Leslie Feldman

Many people enjoy a nice cup of coffee to get started in the morning, or a nice glass of wine with dinner, but overdoing it can cause health issues. While smoking has been widely associated with IBD, there is conflicting information about alcohol and coffee. A new study published in Inf...

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Lessons from a chronic pain journey

February 19, 2021

Sheila Roher, MPH

Dee Dee Branchaud is in remission, yet she has suffered chronic abdominal pain for years. While invisible to medical tools, the pain has been so intense that she had to stop working at a job she loved. Her experiences, shared in her keynote speech at last year’s Pain in IBD: From Biolog...

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Unlocking the keys to chronic visceral pain

February 18, 2021

Sheila Roher, MPH

Most physicians view pain the way firefighters view smoke, as an urgent alarm that signals an underlying problem. Find and treat the underlying problem and the pain should go away. (That’s why there’s an understandable caution in medicine about anything that might mask pain and make it ...

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Being South Asian American & Living with IBD

February 2, 2021

Tina Aswani Omprakash

I was 22 years old when I was first diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). I felt very isolated as a young South Asian American woman, unable to relate to those around me who were healthy and able-bodied. Even though this disease runs in my family, there was very little knowle...

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Throwing light on a potential new treatment for ulcerative proctitis

December 22, 2020

Amber Tresca

On November 17-18, 2020, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation hosted its third annual IBD Innovate: Product Development for Crohn’s & Colitis™ conference. This meeting brings together researchers, start-up companies, industry companies, accelerator organizations and more who are com...

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Seeking better biomarkers and indicators of IBD

March 30, 2020

When Christopher Columbus first sighted land in October 1492, he thought he had reached Japan. That’s how bad his map was.  In medicine, we rely increasingly on biomarkers (indicators of disease) to ”map” our health, disease risks, disease conditions, and responses to treatment. Some b...

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