Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Moving Toward a New Array of Therapeutics Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Moving Toward a New Array of Therapeutics
"It is really refreshing and wonderful that our patients have so many more options than we had 20 years ago," says Sandra Quezada, MD, on advances in ulcerative colitis.Medscape (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - May 5, 2022 Category: Surgery Tags: Gastroenterology MDAngle Source Type: news
Lessons Learned on Guiding Ulcerative Colitis Patients Through Difficult Treatment Decisions Lessons Learned on Guiding Ulcerative Colitis Patients Through Difficult Treatment Decisions
Sandra Quezada, MD, reflects on the lessons and language she learned from her mentor, Raymond Cross, MD, to help patients with ulcerative colitis face difficult treatment decisions.Medscape (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - May 5, 2022 Category: Surgery Tags: Gastroenterology MDAngle Source Type: news
Ulcerative Colitis Diet Plan
Title: Ulcerative Colitis Diet PlanCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 11/9/2012 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 5/2/2022 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Digestion General)
Source: MedicineNet Digestion General - May 2, 2022 Category: Nutrition Source Type: news
Ulcerative Colitis: Developing Drugs for Treatment
Ulcerative Colitis: Developing Drugs for Treatment; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - April 28, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Ulcerative Colitis: Developing Drugs for Treatment; Guidance for Industry
Ulcerative Colitis: Developing Drugs for Treatment; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - April 28, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Ulcerative colitis: 'I was going to the toilet up to 30 times a day'
Two young women with ulcerative colitis share photos of their stoma bags to normalise the condition. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - April 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Connection Between IBD and Aging
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has long been thought of as an ailment of middle, or even young, adulthood. The chronic illness—which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding, and decreased quality of life—impacts about 3.1 million people in the U.S. However, it is far from a disease only of the young and middle-aged. More than a quarter of people with IBD are elderly, a figure that is projected to climb to 30% by 2030, according to a 2021 Gastroenterology & Hepatology article.
Even more underappreciated is the growing population of people who ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Harmon Courage Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New NHS blood test provides hope for Crohn's disease sufferers
The UK-developed test, called PredictSURE IBD, is designed to assess the severity of Crohn's and ulcerative colitis, conditions that cause inflammation and ulceration inside the gut. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tovaris ’s journey: Restored hope after a colorectal cancer diagnosis
Tovaris Matthews says he ’ll never forget the three words he heard the morning of Sept.9, 2020, that changed his life forever – “We found cancer.”
As someone living with ulcerative colitis (UC), Matthews had undergone a colonoscopy the week prior with his gastrointestinal (GI) doctor due to a bad flare up. He was a nticipating news that he would need to do an intensive treatment for his UC, but never thought he would hear those three words instead. As Matthews tried to process the news he… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - April 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Atrium Health Source Type: news
New Index Predicts Histologic Remission for UC: Study New Index Predicts Histologic Remission for UC: Study
A new score to gauge histologic remission in ulcerative colitis (UC), based simply on the presence or absence of neutrophils, is effective, according to a new study.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - March 31, 2022 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology News Source Type: news
Histologic Remission Predicts Relapse-Free Survival in UC Histologic Remission Predicts Relapse-Free Survival in UC
Data from a retrospective study support histologic remission to predict relapse-free survival in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) whose disease is in remission.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - March 31, 2022 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology News Source Type: news
Toss Up for Second-Line IBD Tx; Screening for Esophageal Cancer; 100 Colon Polyps
(MedPage Today) -- Effectiveness of vedolizumab (Entyvio) and tofacitinib (Xeljanz) for ulcerative colitis or vedolizumab and ustekinumab (Stelara) for Crohn's disease did not significantly differ among patients who failed on tumor necrosis factor... (Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology)
Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology - March 31, 2022 Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Model Predicts CRC Risk in Ulcerative Colitis Patients With LGD
Four clinicopathological variables significantly associated with advanced neoplasia risk among those with low - grade dysplasia (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology - March 25, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Gastroenterology, Oncology, Pathology, Journal, Source Type: news
Model Predicts CRC Risk in Ulcerative Colitis Patients With LGD
FRIDAY, March 25, 2022 -- For patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), large, unresected, multifocal low-grade dysplasia (LGD) and recent moderate/severe histological inflammation are associated with elevated risk of developing advanced neoplasia... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 25, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
FDA Approves Upadacitinib for Ulcerative Colitis FDA Approves Upadacitinib for Ulcerative Colitis
Upadacitinib has been shown to rapidly control symptoms in adults with moderate to severe active ulcerative colitis. It ’s the first FDA approval for the JAK inhibitor in gastroenterology.FDA Approvals (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - March 17, 2022 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology News Alert Source Type: news
