Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Marla C. Dubinsky, MD, winner of the 2023 Healio Lifetime Disruptor Award, was first inspired to “disrupt the space” after witnessing patients with inflammatory bowel disease become frustrated with lack of support and access to care.

Difficult-to-treat psoriatic arthritis was common in a large, real-life cohort, with key risk factors including extensive psoriasis, higher BMI and a history of inflammatory bowel disease, according to data published in Rheumatology.

In this video, Uma Mahadevan, MD, director of the Colitis and Crohn’s Disease Center at the University of California, San Francisco, spoke with Healio about a consensus conference on the management of IBD in pregnancy.

In this Healio video, Uma Mahadevan, MD, director of the Colitis and Crohn’s Disease Center at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses new study results assessing the use of interleukin-23 inhibitors in ulcerative colitis.

WASHINGTON — In patients with active Crohn’s disease, guselkumab was superior to both placebo and standard-of-care ustekinumab after 48 weeks of treatment, according to late-breaking data from the phase 3 GALAXI program.

In this Healio video, Uma Mahadevan, MD, director of the Colitis and Crohn’s Disease Center at the University of California, San Francisco, recaps results from the SEQUENCE trial, which were presented at Digestive Disease Week 2024.

WASHINGTON — In this video, Mark Genovese, MD, discusses results of the VIVID-1 study, in which mirikizumab demonstrated noninferiority to ustekinumab for week 52 clinical remission among patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s disease.

WASHINGTON — Patients with Crohn’s disease who ate a catered low-fat, high-fiber diet for 8 weeks experienced improvements in symptoms, inflammation and quality of life vs. those offered counseling alone, researchers reported.

WASHINGTON — Entyvio is “safe and effective” for maintaining sustained steroid-free remission at 1 year in children with inflammatory bowel disease, more so in those with ulcerative colitis vs. Crohn’s disease, according to a researcher.