“I tried everything, I really did. I even tried this new treatment that I got in Spain because it wasn’t yet available here”, one of our team members’ close friends said about his Crohn’s disease progression. “It was supposed to do miracles but it didn’t work on me at all. I got so anxious, I began provoking my flare-ups in…
We’ll say it again: terminology can easily become a barrier between patients and the world of clinical trials. It seems that sometimes we take for granted the understanding of what different medical research terms mean and don’t go as in-depth as we probably should. We have a series of posts exploring questions, practices, and procedures as they relate to clinical…
When it comes to clinical trials and medical research in general terminology can be a barrier, preventing patients from being as informed as they should be. Informed consent is a major part of taking part in a clinical trial, but in order to give your informed consent you must be in on the jargon used by researchers. We at FindMeCure…
A concern of yours we’d like to address today is contained in the question “What next?”. What happens after the clinical trial is over, is a valid enough enquiry even if you end up deciding not to participate in one. After a clinical trial is over what most of you want to know is whether now you’re entitled to the…
When it comes to clinical trials there are no off-limits questions. We’re here to help spread the knowledge so you can make better, more educated decisions about your health. Thankfully, you have a lot of questions making our job easier by guiding us in the direction of your concerns. We have prepared a long list of questions you had for…
For a long time now there has been an ongoing debate about how the course of development of ulcerative colitis is or isn’t related to diet. And while researchers widely agree that ulcerative colitis (and other IBDs for that matter) is not directly caused by our diet, there are still differences of opinion backed up by research about how different…
