Two biomarker tests -- one for blood and the other for stool -- are mainstays in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but gastroenterologists are hoping to gain even more insight from ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways Diagnosing Crohn's disease can involve multiple tests, including ...

Zinc sits at the heart of many bacterial enzymes, so one of our immune system's simplest defenses is to keep zinc out of reach. Calprotectin, a neutrophil protein abundant at infection sites, is ...

BÜHLMANN, a company based in Germany, launched IBDoc, an at-home, in-vitro diagnostic test for gastrointestinal conditions, including some inflammatory bowel diseases, according to an IBD News Today ...

Jersey doctors could be able to send patients for a test to check for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) later this year. The test - known as faecal calprotectin testing - can show the difference ...

Age, fecal calprotectin level, toxin B polymerase chain reaction cycle threshold, immunosuppression, sex, and creatinine levels were identified as independent risk factors for developing recurrent ...

Accumulating evidence suggests that the immune system plays a crucial role in the emergence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease—a condition where fatty deposits, also known as plaque, gradually ...

Serum calprotectin and complement factor 3 (C3) levels were elevated in treatment-naive patients with early psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and declined with treatment; these markers outperformed C-reactive ...

I am still haunted by my initiation to Crohn disease. My late brother Andrew, who succumbed to the illness because of a confluence of complications at 29 years-old, first manifested symptoms as a ...