Crohns

Research from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago found that direct injection of neonatal mesenchymal stem cells, derived from heart tissue discarded during surgery, reduces intestinal inflammation and promotes wound…

Britons with a debilitating bowel disease may be spared life-changing surgery thanks to a drug used to treat the flaky skin condition psoriasis.Health chiefs have now approved risankizumab for NHS patients with hard-to-treat Crohn’s…

Aurobindo Pharma subsidiary CuraTeQ Biologics has entered into an exclusive license agreement with U.S. firm BioFactura Inc to commercialise BFI-751, a proposed biosimilar to recombinant monoclonal antibody Stelara (Ustekinumab) that is…

Scores of Britons with a debilitating bowel disease are missing out on ‘life-changing’ surgery that can put their chronic illness into remission, experts fear.About half a million Britons suffer with Crohn’s disease, which causes agonising…

The Walmart logo is displayed outside their store near Bloomsburg.Paul Weaver | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Walmart for firing a North Carolina employee with Crohn's disease after the…

A medical breakthrough is bringing hope to tens of thousands of people living with Crohn's.A new daily tablet for the debilitating digestive system condition has gained its first global approval in the UK.Upadactinib is now poised to become…

A dissolvable plug delivered stem cell therapy with few side effects in patients with single tract perianal fistulas, Mayo Clinic researchers discovered. Perianal fistulas are painful tunnels between the intestine and the skin that often do…

In a new study using a rat model of Crohn's disease, a biodegradable hydrogel composite loaded with stem cells, developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, in a collaborative effort with the Whiting School of Engineering, has shown…

Changes in a single gene open the door for harmful gut bacteria to set off the inflammation that drives Crohn's disease, according to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. These findings could one…

A new study may have solved a mystery surrounding Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel illness where immune defenses, meant to attack invading microbes, instead mistakenly target the body's own digestive tract. Norovirus, a common…