Category Archives: Ulcerative Colitis

(Photo credit: Getty Images) DALLAS Jan. 16, 2024 By taking advantage of mechanisms that allow cancer cells to evade immune attack, UTSouthwestern Medical Center researchers have developed a new strategy in animal models that has potential for treating ulcerative colitis. Their findings, reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering, could eventually provide relief to millions of people worldwide who have this or other autoimmune conditions Continue reading →

Waqqas Afif, MD Credit: McGill University Long-term subcutaneous maintenance therapy with ustekinumab every 8 and 12 weeks can maintain clinical and endoscopic outcomes through 4 years, according to the final efficacy and safety results of the UNIFI long-term extension study in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). In patients who responded to intravenous ustekinumab induction, therapy was safe and effective at maintaining symptomatic remission, providing clinical and endoscopic benefit to patients through 4 years of treatment without the need for concomitant corticosteroids and with no new safety signals reported.1 Due to the life-long nature of UC, long-term treatment is often required to induce and maintain remission Continue reading →

How Is Ulcerative Colitis Treated? Treatment for ulcerative colitis can include medicine, changes in your diet, or surgery. These treatments won't cure your ulcerative colitis, unless you have surgery that removes the colon and rectum, which is considered curative, but they can help ease your symptoms. Continue reading →

Click UC (ulcerative colitis) or CD (Crohn's disease) to change the selected condition. Your healthcare provider will administer ENTYVIO through a needle placed in a vein (IV infusion) in your arm, either at their office, at an infusion center, or in your home. Infusions last approximately 30 minutes Continue reading →

It could be Crohns or Colitis. More than half a million people in the UK live with Crohns or Colitis. Continue reading →

How do doctors treat ulcerative colitis? Doctors treat ulcerative colitis with medicines and surgery Continue reading →

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Men who have sex with men have an increased prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, according to a new report. Continue reading →

On Oct. 1, the Michigan chapter of the Crohns & Colitis Foundation will host its 45th Annual Evening of Hope Theres No Place Like Hope gala at the MotorCity Casino Hotel. The Wizard of Oz-themed night will raise critical funds and drive awareness to help find cures for Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis, which currently have no cure. Continue reading →

The scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion of the type II variation application of filgotinib (Jyseleca, Galapagos NV) based on testicular function safety data from the MANTA and MANTA-RAy studies, a company press release indicates. Filgotinib is a small molecule that selectively inhibits Janus kinase (JAK) type 1. Continue reading →