We love giving you the good news about novel medical approaches, breakthroughs, promising treatments in development and clinical trials that seem to be on the way to finding better solutions. We love doing this because we’re passionate about the world of possibilities that research opens the doors to, we love doing this because it gives all of us hope that…
Side effects are mentioned in every other sentence when talking about clinical trials, but it’s a commonly acknowledged truth that every drug - from aspirin to complex new formulas - has side effects. Some side effects are more pronounced than others, but ultimately there is no side-effects-free treatment except for the chamomile tea when we have trouble sleeping. Some side…
Introducing healthy changes to your diet might be the single best decision you’ll ever make for your long-term health. According to the World Health Organisation a bigger part of the world’s population lives in countries where obesity is more of a health issue than underweight. Other grim statistics reinforce the notion that obesity is becoming an epidemic not only in…
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…
An Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can feel like a curse. Limiting our diet and social life, causing at times terrible pain and inducing panic at the thought that currently there is no cure, life with an IBD is not easy. Some time ago we talked about what’s in clinical trials for treating Ulcerative Colitis in hopes of presenting the most…
Society’s notion of masculinity generally includes being ‘though’. ‘Acting like a man’ is often associated with strength and perseverance to the point of braving through severe physical or emotional pain, never reaching out, crying or asking for help. It is these gender norms, however, that endanger men’s health and shorten men’s life expectancy. According to statistics, men die at higher…
