World-renowned soccer player scores big against Crohn’s disease

Chastain, whose son was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, encourages people living with inflammatory bowel diseases to work with their healthcare providers to create plans to live with these diseases For world-renowned soccer player Brandi Chastain, having a game plan in place to achieve goals was second nature. Chastain is a former member of the United States women’s national soccer team and a retired professional soccer player who was recently elected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame.

Helicobacter and Campylobacter species associated with IBD

Professor Hazel Mitchell and colleagues conducted a comprehensive global systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between Helicobacter pylori infection and IBD. As bacterial antigen cross-reactivity has been postulated to be involved in this association, published data on enterohepatic Helicobacter spp, and Campylobacter spp and IBD was also analyzed.

OSE Immunotherapeutics signs a license option agreement with Servier…

OSE Immunotherapeutics SA , today announced that the company has entered into a worldwide license option agreement with Servier , an independent international pharmaceutical company, for the development and commercialization of OSE Immunotherapeutics’ Effi-7, an antagonist of the interleukin-7 receptor. Under the terms of the agreement, OSE Immunotherapeutics grants Servier a license option on the exclusive worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of its product Effi-7.