Tag Archives: Crohn’s Disease

Help Team Challenge cross the finish line in Sonoma

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Kevin A. Barnes

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 →

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Where’s my new body?

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Kevin A. Barnes

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 →

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Could a Crohn’s medication also cure Alzheimer’s?

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Kevin A. Barnes

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 →

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Team Challenge Update: Napa-to-Sonoma 2010

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Kevin A. Barnes

Team Challenge Wisconsin is once again participating in the Napa-to-Sonoma Half Marathon. Although I am not running Napa-to-Sonoma this year, I am serving as a mentor for several Team Challenge participants. Each participant spends 16 weeks training to run or walk … Read the rest of this entry →

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Is generic Remicade (Humira, etc.) in our future?

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes

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 →

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