News and Information on Crohn's Disease

Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide people interested in crohn's disease with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS. This video describes how you can use RSS:



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We collected the best sites focusing on crohn's disease-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

About.com - Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

• Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

• Description: "The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to finding the cure for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

eMedicineHealth - Crohn's Disease

• Description: "eMedicineHealth.com is a consumer health information site that was launched in May 2003. The site contains over 900 health and medical articles written by physicians for patients and consumers."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Everyday Health - Crohn's Disease

• Description: "Everyday Health is for consumers who need to manage their conditions daily, get answers to their most important health-related questions, or find thorough information about how to get and stay well."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Health24 - Crohn's disease

• Description: "Health24 content is educational, relevant, and medically reviewed. The aim of the editorial is to enable readers to make informed decisions about their health. The site covers a wide range of topics, such as in-depth information on common medical conditions, diet, fitness, pregnancy, parenting, men's and women's health. It is continually being updated by a team of medical specialists and journalists."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealthandAge - Crohn`s Disease

• Description: "HealthandAge.com is written and edited by medical professionals; it presents accurate, credible, and reliable health information online, which empowers 50+ people to identify, understand, prevent, treat, and communicate effectively with their health professionals about a wide variety of medical conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealthCentral - Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Description: "HealthCentral.com is one of the most trusted sources of medical information and up to date news and contains a doctor-approved health encyclopedia of diseases and conditions, the ability to find symptoms and treatments. Also drug information with side effects and interactions."
• Quality: "Latest news on Inflammatory Bowel Disease" It is also accredited by HONcode.

Mayo Clinic - Crohn's disease

• Description: "Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Medical News Today - Crohn's / IBD News

• Description: "The latest Crohn's News & IBD News articles published daily. Includes news on Crohn's Disease (CD), Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Includes current research, symptoms and treatment options."
• Quality: The most comprehensive medical news site. More than 2 million unique visitors every month.

MedicineNet.com - Crohn's Disease

• Description: "MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site."
• Quality: Since 1996, MedicineNet.com has had a highly accomplished, uniquely experienced team of qualified etexecutives in the fields of medicine, healthcare, Internet technology, and business to bring you the most comprehensive, sought after healthcare information anywhere.

MedLine Plus - Crohn's Disease

• Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
• Quality: Courtesy of U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Netdoctor - Crohn's disease

• Description: "We want to break down the "medical language barrier" between the doctor and the patient. Critical medical information must be presented in a clear and understandable language so that the patient fully understands his or her choices and decisions. Ultimately, it is the patient who must make the critical health choices."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

ScienceDaily - Crohn's Disease News

• Description: "ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world. Now with more than 3 million monthly visitors, ScienceDaily generates nearly 15 million page views a month and is steadily growing in its global audience."
• Quality: Click here to see the editorial board and the awards

The Medical News - Crohn's Disease News and Research

• Description: "Latest Medical News and Research from Around the World."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

WebMD - Crohn's Disease

• Description: "The WebMD content staff blends award-winning expertise in medicine, journalism, health communication and content creation to bring you the best health information possible. Our esteemed colleagues at MedicineNet.com are frequent contributors to WebMD and comprise our Medical Editorial Board. Our Independent Medical Review Board continuously reviews the site for accuracy and timeliness."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.