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	<title>Kevin A. Barnes &#187; Crohn&#8217;s Disease</title>
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		<title>Help Team Challenge cross the finish line in Sonoma</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/06/30/help-team-challenge-cross-the-finish-line-in-sonoma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Napa2Sonoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/06/30/help-team-challenge-cross-the-finish-line-in-sonoma/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Where’s my new body?</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/06/12/wheres-my-new-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain transplant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Larry Niven]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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? <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/06/12/wheres-my-new-body/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Could a Crohn’s medication also cure Alzheimer’s?</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/04/03/could-a-crohns-medication-also-cure-alzheimers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/04/03/could-a-crohns-medication-also-cure-alzheimers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rapamycin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sirolimus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/04/03/could-a-crohns-medication-also-cure-alzheimers/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Team Challenge Update: Napa-to-Sonoma 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/03/17/team-challenge-update-napa-to-sonoma-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/03/17/team-challenge-update-napa-to-sonoma-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napa2Sonoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2010/03/17/team-challenge-update-napa-to-sonoma-2010/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is generic Remicade (Humira, etc.) in our future?</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/20/is-generic-remicade-in-our-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/20/is-generic-remicade-in-our-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[$3K in 3 Weeks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biologics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cimzia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generic drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H.R. 3962]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/20/is-generic-remicade-in-our-future/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Research Update: The Human Gut Microbiome Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/18/research-update-the-human-gut-microbiome-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/18/research-update-the-human-gut-microbiome-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[$3K in 3 Weeks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Gut Microbiome Initiative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas half marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ulcerative colitis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kevinabarnes.com/?p=719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/18/research-update-the-human-gut-microbiome-initiative/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing $3K in 3 Weeks — Help beat Crohn’s and colitis</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/15/announcing-3k-in-3-weeks-help-beat-crohns-and-colitis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/15/announcing-3k-in-3-weeks-help-beat-crohns-and-colitis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[$3K in 3 Weeks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCFA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[$3K in 3 Weeks is a special effort I’ve established to raise both awareness and at least $3,000 to help defeat Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis — hence $3K in 3 Weeks. The effort runs from today (Sunday, November 15) &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/15/announcing-3k-in-3-weeks-help-beat-crohns-and-colitis/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Research identifies more IBD genes</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/05/research-identifies-more-ibd-genes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/05/research-identifies-more-ibd-genes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interleukin-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEJM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday1 identifies three different genetic mutations that appear to be associated with early-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Researchers examined two families which had a total of nine cases of &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/05/research-identifies-more-ibd-genes/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recommitment vs. Being Committed</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/02/recommitment-vs-being-committed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/02/recommitment-vs-being-committed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accomplishment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s going to be an interesting (and busy) November and December. I recently reviewed a list of all of the non-work projects I currently have underway, with the hope of dropping (or at the very least deferring) some of them. &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/11/02/recommitment-vs-being-committed/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uncover Ostomy</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/10/04/uncover-ostomy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/10/04/uncover-ostomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin A. Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crohn's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ostomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (October 3, 2009) was World Ostomy Day and a college student in Canada launched a unique awareness campaign. The Uncover Ostomy campaign takes a provocative look at ostomies,1 and tries to dispel the social stigma that many individuals attach &#8230; <a href="http://www.kevinabarnes.com/2009/10/04/uncover-ostomy/">Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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