Dec 5, 2023
As an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and the Director of Translational Studies for the Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Dr. Damas sheds light on the misconception that IBD only affects certain ethnicities. Her extensive...
Nov 28, 2023
What is it like to be a teen living with Crohn’s disease? If you’re like Josef Miller, you channel the challenges of the diagnosis and management of IBD into action. Josef has written a book about his experiences, entitled "The Purple Rose," and created an initiative called "Positivity Beats IBD," which...
Nov 14, 2023
What options are you wiling to try to manage your ulcerative
colitis or Crohn’s disease? How about putting someone else’s stool
into your own colon? Fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) — using
stool from a donor to repopulate bacteria in the colon — are being
studied for use in treating inflammatory bowel...
Nov 8, 2023
What do all the new oral drugs available for treating IBD have
to do with military service? Being diagnosed with IBD might mean
leaving the military for some service members. Part of the reason
is that it’s not possible to be deployed while receiving a drug
that’s an injection or an infusion. But when a medication...
Oct 24, 2023
Being diagnosed with a chronic condition is a major
adjustment. Digestive conditions like IBD (Crohn’s disease and
ulcerative colitis) wind up affecting every part of our
lives. Learning to accept the ways in which the disease
affects life can be helpful. But it’s important to make the
distinction between...