After two years of virtual programming due to COVID-19, Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2022 came back with a bang in San Diego, CA last month. There was a lot of research presented about various gastrointestinal and liver conditions and it was exhilarating to see and hear about all the l...

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...

As a parent, seeing your child grow is an indicator that they are healthy. When IBD is diagnosed in childhood, one of the ways it impacts kids is in their growth. Some children with Crohn’s disease don’t grow at a normal rate and in some, their final adult height is less than expected b...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...