“Camp Oasis is a place where understanding and acceptance meet. It’s a place meant for everyone with IBD to not feel alone in their battle and where you don’t need to explain yourself. You can just be you.”  – Camp Oasis volunteer   Registration is open for Camp Oas...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research has come a long way in the last 20 years. One exciting development is the growing emphasis on precision medicine. This approach matches people with the best therapy based on their genetics, inflammatory biomarkers, and other unique biological an...

Treatment options for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have advanced significantly over the past few decades, particularly with the introduction of biologic therapies starting in 1998. Biologics like infliximab (Remicade®), adalimumab (Humira®), vedolizumab (Entyvio®), and ustekinumab (...

Katy Bagnato was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2010 when she was a freshman in high school. Until last month, Katy had never been in clinical remission, although there were times when she thought that might be the case because she wasn’t having symptoms. There were periods w...

Living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, presents a range of challenges that often go unspoken due to stigma. Despite affecting approximately 1 in 100 Americans, IBD remains shrouded in silence. At the Crohn's & Colitis Fou...

Prior authorization can be a speed bump in your inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment journey. Or it can stop that journey in its tracks and send you and your care team in a new direction.   Either way, the process—established by health insurance companies to manage their co...

When Dr. Ariel Jordan started medical school in 2017, she didn’t imagine she’d become an advocate for people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).    But one day when she went to the pharmacy to pick up her usual medication for her ulcerative colitis, she was shocked...

A scarcity of places to go when you’re traveling to a new city is a major issue for people living with inflammatory bowel disease. In partnership with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, HealthCentral reports on the little-discussed crisis.   By Marygrace Taylor   This c...

​​​​​​Marissa Spratley What’s it like to have 500 people who have or care for someone with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) together in one place for one cause?    Marissa Spratley will tell you because she’s been there. “It’s powerful.” For the past three years, Mar...

*This article originally appeared in Psychology Today.   Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, affects nearly 1 in 100 Americans. While the exact cause of IBD remains unknown, some researchers believe that extreme stress m...