We are honored to have Michael Weiss as our featured e-Patient this week. Michael is an inspiring and tireless advocate for awareness of chronic conditions and patient empowerment through health ca...

This week's featured e-patient is Kat, who has been doing some awesome blogging over at What The Jules as well as on her Tumblr, Alice in Crohnsland. Let's follow her down the rabbit hole... ...

This week's featured e-Patient is Damion, of My Cranky Gut fame. Let's dive in! Hello Damion! Tell us about that cranky gut of yours. My gut has always been cranky. It was only rece...

Crohnology is delighted to introduce you to this week's featured e-Patient! Make sure to check out our recurring interviews with some serious blogging talent. We’ll do the hard-nosed journalism; ...

Crohn's and Colitis are caused when a person's over-reactive immune system attacks it's digestive system. This causes flares of inflammation in the digestive tract, creating problems of absorptio...

Stanford Medicine X Video on Sean Ahrens and Peer-to-Peer Healthcare One year ago, I placed a stake in the ground. I decided I could no longer passively accept the current state of...

I am extremely floored to be the profiled e-patient in this six-minute video on peer-to-peer healthcare. Larry Chu, MD, the organizer of Stanford Medicine X hired a very talented videographer (...

The video from my demo of Crohnology onstage at Stanford Medicine 2.0 has just been released. On stage (and in this video) I walk through briefly what motivated me to build Crohnology, what Cro...

Today, December 1, 2011 is the start of the newly-officiated National Crohn's & Colitis (IBD) Awareness Week! The proposal for this awareness week was introduced to congress by Senate Res...

Over Thanksgiving weekend, I had the pleasure to do a video interview about Crohn's, Colitis, and Crohnology with Vic Phillips of BehaveYourHealth. BehaveYourHealth is a new website sta...

Wow. Thank you everyone who has showered Crohnology with so much love and support over the last couple of weeks. As some of you know, two weeks ago, the blog post I wrote about Demoing Cro...

As some of you may know, at the age of 12, I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, an incurable, inflammatory disease of the digestive tract. After having several devastating flare-ups, I wen...

Crohn's and Colitis are isolating conditions. Because they are invisible illnesses, it's impossible for a patient to walk down the street and identify another. As a result, we patients are dis...