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More people getting diagnosed with celiac disease
Date: 2009-03-24 00:00:00

Thanks to doctors embracing a blood test, more people are being diagnosed with a gastrointestinal disease and getting the opportunity to change their life.... Full Story

Inflammation of the intestine linked to chromosome damage
Date: 2009-06-01 00:00:00

UCLA scientists have linked intestinal inflammation and systemic chromosome damage in mice, possible shedding light on how inflammation is tied to many different diseases, especially cancer.... Full Story

Food poisoning may increase risk of IBD
Date: 2009-06-02 00:00:00

New research from Denmark may have established a link between infection by salmonella or campylobacter gastroenteritis, two common causes of food poisoning, and the eventual development of inflammatory bowel disease.... Full Story

As the rate of celiac disease increases, more options to cope appear
Date: 2009-07-09 00:00:00

The rate of celiac disease has more than quadrupled over the last 50 years and now approximately one in every hundred people has the disease in the U.S. Doctors are uncertain why the disease appears to be getting more common, however.... Full Story

Celiac disease testing offers new insight into autoimmune disease
Date: 2009-07-27 00:00:00

Celiac disease has probably been with the human race since the dawn of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. When humans first shifted from a diet of nuts, tubers and a little bit of meat to one based more on cultivated grains, they put themselves at risk for new diseases caused by abnormal reactions to the gluten proteins associated with wheat. Celiac was first named and written about in the first century by the Greek physician, Aretaeus, who called it koiliakos, based on the Greek word for abdomen.... Full Story