- Description: "Revolution Health is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, Revolution Health allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions."
- Quality: Accredited by HONcode.
- Description and content: A Crohns Disease , IBD and Ulcerative Colitis online support forum.
- Quality: More than 6,000 members, >160,000 posts.
- Description: "Learn about Crohn's disease at Crohn's & Me. Here you'll find a Crohn's community, video stories from real patients, and a special downloadable Crohn's Tracker."
- Quality: Infos and tips for everyday life and treatment info.
- Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 5.5 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 14 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
- Quality: Accredited by HONcode.
- Description: "Welcome to the Crohn Disease Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
- Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.
- Description: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Crohn's Disease, together."
- Quality: Accredited by HONcode.
- Description: "A social support network for Crohn's Disease patients, family and friends."
- Quality: This free non profit support network's goal is to help people living with Crohn's Disease, along with the families and friends of Crohn's patients.
- Description: "HealingWell.com is a thriving social network and support community for patients, caregivers, and families coping with the daily struggles of diseases, disorders and chronic illness."
- Quality: Health content is contributed by reputable health organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Mediwire and e-HealthSource.
- Description: "The social support network for Crohn`s Disease and Colitis"
- Quality: "A patient led social support network centered around Crohn's Disease and Colitis."
- Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
- Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.
- Description: "Crohn's and Colitis UK aims to improve life for everyone affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), the most common forms being Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis."
- Quality: "The charity brings together people of all ages who have been diagnosed with IBD, their families and the health professionals involved in their care."
- Description and content: An interactive online service for people with medical conditions. If you would like to talk to others with the same condition as yours, go to the site, press start and choose a health category, say Crohn's disease, and you will be connected to a random person with Crohn's disease. When your conversation is over, you press next and you are automatically connected to another person with Crohn's disease. You can talk to as many people as you wish.
- Quality: It was launched by Medgadget.com, one of the most popular and most visited medical blogs.
- Description: "Linking the Crohn`s community"
- Quality: Information about community advocates, description and guidelines is available.
- Description: "Crohn's Zone is a friendly interactive forum based community for people all over the world with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)."
- Quality: Accredited by HONcode.
- Description: "Got GERD? IBS? Crohn`s or Colitis? Then you've got expert commentary and support from fellow sufferers right here."
- Quality: Accredited by HONcode.
- Description: An online community connecting patients with Crohn's disease, and their caregivers, family and friends.
- Quality: Inspire connects patients, families, friends, caregivers and health professionals for health and wellness support. Inspire works with trusted health partners to build safe and secure health and wellness groups.
- Description: "Crohnology is that quest. Crohnology is a place for people with Crohn's & Colitis to share the extremely valuable information each has accumulated on their journey to better health. And in turn, heal others by informing them of treatments that work."
- Quality: Clear description, author and contact information are available. This project has been featured by Stanford Medical School.
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Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous crohn's disease groups:
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There is an incredible amount of stories, resources and links related to Crohn's disease online and we selected the most relevant ones in this package.
