Tag Archives: Crohn’s Disease

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.

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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

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Team Challenge Update: Napa-to-Sonoma 2010

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?

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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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

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