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…
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…
In 2010 Kim’s family heard the words that changed their life forever: “Your daughter has cancer”. Back then, Maya was a four-year-old kid with a life filled with happiness, ballet, arts, sports. Maya was full of life. The nightmare started with pain While running outside, Maya’s knee hurt but nothing was found by her paediatrician. A couple of months…
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…
If you follow our blog you know that we like to clear confusion about clinical trials and we even have a series of posts dedicated to increasing awareness about what clinical trials are, how they work and what all of these terms like ‘placebo’, ‘blinded’, ‘randomization’ and so on mean. We not only aim to raise awareness, however, as one…