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Help Team Challenge cross the finish line in Sonoma
The Napa-to-Sonoma half marathon is less than three weeks away, and Team Challenge needs your help! If your donations help all seven people I’m mentoring meet their fundraising goal before 11:00 PM Central Time on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, I will publicly shave my head following the 2010 Napa-to-Sonoma half marathon. Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Crohn's Disease
Tagged CCFA, Crohn's Disease, ibd, Napa2Sonoma, Team Challenge, ulcerative colitis
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Where’s my new body?
Many people with chronic illness seem over time to develop a love/hate relationship with their body. They understand the tiniest nuances of how it reacts to specific medications, to different foods, to various environmental factors. But ultimately if you suffer from an incurable, physically compromising illness, there end up being times when you just want to dump your entire body and start over with a healthy new one. Which of course is impossible.
Or is it? Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Crohn's Disease, Personal, Science Fiction
Tagged brain transplant, Crohn's Disease, humor, Larry Niven, organlegger
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Could a Crohn’s medication also cure Alzheimer’s?
Two independent studies published this week (Journal of Biological Chemistry,1 PLoS One2 ) show that the drug rapamycin (also known as sirolimus) reverses the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. Both studies show that rapamycin reduces the level of amyloid-beta-42 (Aβ … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Crohn's Disease
Tagged Alzheimer's disease, Crohn's Disease, rapamycin, Sirolimus
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Is generic Remicade (Humira, etc.) in our future?
As part of $3K in 3 Weeks, here is another in a series of articles on current issues and topics related to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Did you know that biologics1 such as Remicade, Humira, and Cimzia – used … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in $3K in 3 Weeks, Crohn's Disease, Science
Tagged biologics, Cimzia, Crohn's Disease, generic drugs, H.R. 3962, Hatch-Waxman Act, health care reform, Humira, ibd, Remicade, ulcerative colitis
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Research Update: The Human Gut Microbiome Initiative
As part of $3K in 3 Weeks, here is the first in a series of articles on current research initiatives related to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The Human Gut Microbiome Initiative, based at the Genome Center of Washington University … Read the rest of this entry
