Cannabis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: All Smoke and Mirrors?

Should patients with inflammatory bowel disease smoke?

Effects of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including most important forms; Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC); are chronic diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract with unclear etiology and pathology. The role of gut microbiota has recently been considered as major a factor, since altered microbiome or "dysbiosis" is a key player in the protracted course of inflammation in IBD. Howeve...

Inflammatory bowel disease and tobacco smoke--a case-control study.

A case-control study was carried out in Stockholm, Sweden between 1984 and 1987 to evaluate the association of cigarette smoking and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke during childhood and the subsequent development of inflammatory bowel disease. Information on smoking was obtained by a postal questionnaire. The relative risk of Crohn's disease in current smokers compared with those who ha...

Europeanisation as Empowerment of Civil Society: All Smoke and Mirrors?

This paper explores the impact of the EU on civil society in domestic public accountability contests. Evidence drawn from three case studies of public policy involving an actual member-State (the UK), a new member-State (leading candidate for accession at the time of writing) (the Czech Republic), and a poorly performing candidate (Romania) support the conclusion that the EU empowers domestic a...

Cannabis use amongst patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

BACKGROUND Experimental evidence suggests the endogenous cannabinoid system may protect against colonic inflammation, leading to the possibility that activation of this system may have a therapeutic role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Medicinal use of cannabis for chronic pain and other symptoms has been reported in a number of medical conditions. We aimed to evaluate cannabis use in pati...