Ileum in Red

(Best Syndication) Cornell University researchers say that Crohn’s disease may be associated with a group of E. coli bacteria. The bacteria contain genes similar to those described in uropathogenic and avian pathogenic E. coli and enteropathogenic bacteria such as salmonella, cholera, and bubonic plague.

Kenneth Simpson, professor of small animal medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine compared healthy individuals with people with Crohn’s disease which was restricted to the ileum and the colon.

“Given that only about 20 percent of fecal bacteria can be cultured, our group adopted a broad culture-independent approach to target specific subgroups of bacteria for quantitative in situ analysis and culture based characterization,” says Simpson.

Radon

(Best Syndication) German researchers say that babies who are in regular contact with farm animals are less likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease compared to other kids. It is possible that kids who are in proximity to farm animals develop a better immunity.

Katja Radon, MSc, has come up with a "hygiene hypothesis" for the reason. When kids are exposed to certain things they develop a stronger immunity to those microbes. The microbes are more plentiful in barns than in homes without farm animals, Radon says. This may explain why studies have found that allergies are rarer among people who had regular contact with farm animals early in life.

Radon works in Munich, Germany, as the head of the unit for occupational and environmental epidemiology & NetTeaching at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. The research was conducted via questionnaire.

Starbucks coffee

(Best Syndication) Researchers say that coffee drinkers are less likely to have liver cancer, the third leading cause of cancer death in the world after lung and stomach cancers. There is a 41 percent risk reduction of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among coffee drinkers compared to those who never drank coffee.

The study led by Francesca Bravi of the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri in Milan, Italy, used a meta-analysis of published studies to build their findings. They poured over various published studies conducted in Europe and Asia and evaluated their results as a whole.

The researchers report that "Moreover, the apparent favorable effect of coffee drinking was found both in studies from southern Europe, where coffee is widely consumed, and from Japan, where coffee consumption is less frequent, and in subjects with chronic liver diseases."

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