I found an extremely interesting article about a Europe-wide trial (which is currently recruiting patients) to treat Crohn’s Disease. The study will attempt to find out if stem cells taken from the sufferer’s own body can provide effective long-term remission.
Aside from this being a possible cure (or at an alternative treatment), I find this quite interesting because the stem cells would be taken from the individual’s body – not from a stem cell bank or from any other controversial sources. How can the folks who are against stem cell research argue with this? I welcome any insight here because I would really like to know.
Anyhow, the article is from physorg.com – http://www.physorg.com/news112978675.html
Enjoy the read!
-Benner
Another drug to aid in the maintenance of Crohn’s Disease… not a cure, but an alternative. This is a new one to me, so I thought I would share it.. here is a link to the article I found. http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/852571020057CCF68525737E00610EE9It is not approved for treatment, but it appears to be in clinical trials.
I keep an eye on http://www.digg.com for technical articles and stumbled across and article about a guy “taking stock GM parts and snapping them together in clever new ways” to make a H3 Hummer into a hybrid that gets 60 miles to the gallon – while also getting 2,000 foot-pounds of torque.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/30/14161/066
Take a look… there is also video of one of his modified cars – a ‘65 Chevy Impala converted into a biodiesel that generates 800 horsepower (from 250) and it gets double the gas mileage (25 mpg) of the original. MTV put on a drag race and it smokes a Lamborghini that is pitted against it.
And the big car makers say this stuff is impossible with todays technologies…. yeah right. They just make too much money off of the oil and fuel and spare parts and don’t want to give up those profits.
These are some Crohn’s Disease resources I gathered a while back. I have not had time to go back and check them, but will and update this post as needed.
Thanks!
-Ben
Sites I thought might be useful, but still need to check out:
Probiotics
Online Support Groups:Crohn’s-Sanity Forum http://crohns-sanity.org/forum/index.php.HealingWell.com Community Topics, Crohn’s Disease — http://community.healingwell.com/community/scripts/topics.pl?NodeID=41477&ClientID=15808
A Yahoo Crohn’s discussion group, has over one thousand members – http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsicrohnssupportclub/
MSN Crohn’s Discussion Group http://groups.msn.com/CrohnsDisease/home.htm
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/crohns-friends/
http://members4.boardhost.com/CrohnsChat/
http://cgi.tripod.com/cdmessageboard/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl
http://pub54.ezboard.com/fchronnieschatfrm1
ArticlesCrohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis — An article titled Conscious Choice (September, 1995) written by Ronald Hoffman, M.D. — http://www.consciouschoice.com/1995-98/cc085/hmd085.html I have been seeding and gathering information on Newsvine. Please check out the following links: http://www.newsvine.com/crohns and http://www.newsvine.com/remicade
