Latest Coeliac disease Stories
ORLAND PARK, Ill., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether it is due to allergies, gluten intolerance, autism, or diabetes, many now turn to special diets that eliminate ingredients such as gluten or milk. Likewise, with asthma and environmental allergies on the rise, many seek relief by using air purifiers and non-toxic cleaning, health and beauty products. A father of two daughters with multiple food and environmental allergies wanted to do something that would make life easier for...
One in 133 people suffer from celiac disease ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dorothy Carpenter had stomach problems her entire life. Eating as much as a bite of bread or pasta could lead to terrible pain. Her illness went undiagnosed for years until a University of Michigan Health System physician recognized it as celiac disease. By then her long-standing condition had become an intestinal mass, a cancer that forced doctors to remove part of her small intestine. "I've...
BOSTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a highly successful market test, Uno Chicago Grill(R) will offer its new, gluten-free pizza nationally. Uno(R) is the first national casual dining chain to offer a gluten-free pizza and received very positive feedback from guests who suffer from celiac disease, which affects approximately one percent of the population. In fact, word-of-mouth reaction from the gluten-free community during the northeastern market test prompted the company to...
Gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE) is an autoimmune enteropathy due to food gluten intolerance in genetically predisposed people. While GSE was thought to be a rare disease in the past and was believed to be essentially a disease of Europeans, recent screening studies showed that GSE is one of the most frequent genetically based diseases occurred worldwide. Iron deficiency anemia could be a sole manifestation of GSE, and it might result in the delayed diagnosis of GSE, resulting in...
Whole Foods Market Inc. has pulled three gluten-free products for children because the items actually contain the substance, the Texas grocery chain said. The chain, with 273 U.S. stores, also said it would create a strict gluten-free definition and begin monitoring its items so such problems don't recur. Three products made for Whole Foods by Wellshire Farms Inc. of Swedesboro, N.J. -- Chicken Bites Dinosaur Shaped, chicken corn dogs and beef corn dogs -- contained between 116 and 2,200...
U-M experts helped develop new evidence-based recommendations put out today by the American College of Gastroenterology U-M Health Minute: Today's top health issues and medical research ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most common disease diagnosed by gastroenterologists, it's also one of the most misunderstood. That's why updated guidelines addressing the management of the condition are being released by the American...
New Graded Recommendations Clarify the Clinical Options for Physicians and Patients BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common disorders managed by gastroenterologists. There have been numerous changes in the clinical landscape in recent years and new evidence has emerged on the benefits and risks of drugs used for IBS. The American College of Gastroenterology today published a new evidence-based systematic review on the...
Alba Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has announced that for the first time, a European patient with active celiac disease has been enrolled in its clinical trial to investigate a treatment for the disease. Alba has enrolled and randomized the newly diagnosed patient from Spain in an eight-week Phase IIb trial with oral larazotide acetate, a tight junction regulator, for the treatment of patients with active celiac disease (CD). The global multi-center, randomized,...
BALTIMORE, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Alba Therapeutics Corporation announced today that for the first time, a European patient with active celiac disease has been enrolled in its clinical trial to investigate a treatment for the disease. Alba has enrolled and randomized the newly diagnosed patient from Spain in an eight-week Phase IIb trial with oral larazotide acetate, a tight junction regulator, for the treatment of patients with active celiac disease (CD). The global multi-center,...
Scott Mandell, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of Enjoy Life Foods, was named to the prestigious "40 Under 40" list today by Crain's Chicago Business. Mandell, 37, started what has fast-become the nation's leading manufacturer of delicious allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods in 2001 based on a business plan he developed at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in the Entrepreneurship & New Venture Formulation class. "Recognition like this, especially in a business...
