Crohn's Disease Could Be Treated With Banana Plantain Fibers Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea. Researchers are working with biotechnology company, Provexis, to test a new plantain based food product that could treat patients with the disease... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Potential New Treatments For Bowel Diseases With The Reshaping Of The Gut Microbiome Home to a diverse range of microorganisms, a healthy human body contains at least tenfold more bacteria cells than human cells. The most abundant and diverse microbial community resides in the intestine, and changes to the gut microbiota are linked with diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Patient Symptoms Are Not Reliable Indicators Of Crohn's Disease Recurrence, Pitt Researchers Find The Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI), which relies on patient symptoms to determine whether or not Crohn's disease is active, may not reliably indicate whether a patient's disease has returned after corrective surgery, according to a study published in this month's issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.According to Miguel Regueiro, M.D... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
