Image courtesy of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America This week (12/1 through 12/7) is Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) wants to know what awareness means to you, asking, “Are you #IBDAware?” Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis, collectively known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), affect 1.6… Continue reading Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week: Are you #IBDAware?
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Throwing it back this Thursday for Crohn’s and Colitis awareness week
We’re throwing it back this Thursday, but to help raise awareness for something that’s happening right now: National Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week (Dec. 1st to 7th). For this #TBT, our very own Maria Lowe shares about her experiences with Crohn’s disease. Maria is part of the PatientsLikeMe Health Data Integrity and Research Teams, and… Continue reading Throwing it back this Thursday for Crohn’s and Colitis awareness week
Patients as Partners: The Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale questionnaire results
Back at the beginning of April, we launched a new blog series called Patients as Partners that highlights the results and feedback PatientsLikeMe members give to questionnaires on our Open Research Exchange (ORE) platform. This time around, we’re sharing the results of the Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale (PMCSMS), a health measure that looks at… Continue reading Patients as Partners: The Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale questionnaire results
What Other Patients Are Saying About Solupred
Solupred is an international brand of prednisolone, a widely prescribed corticosteroid that modifies the body’s immune response and decreases inflammation. It is used to treat a host of inflammatory and autoimmune health conditions, including multiple sclerosis (acute exacerbations), organ rejection, lupus, psoriasis, asthma and ulcerative colitis. At PatientsLikeMe, where more than 120,000 patients are sharing… Continue reading What Other Patients Are Saying About Solupred