Talk:Inflammatory bowel disease

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[edit] Helminthic therapy

I have significantly shortened the section on helminthic therapy. This is still in its experimental stages, and Wikipedia does not need to tell the public how a German company is trying to market this. When it hits the shelves, we'll see.

I have also replaced the news links with an actual scientific report in a peer-reviewed journal. The BBC link quoted the New Scientist, and the latter got its information from the article. This is much more direct. JFW | T@lk 23:17, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Life events

Life events may herald onset of Crohn's but not IBD as a whole - doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00931.x. JFW | T@lk 16:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clustering with immune conditions

doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01215.x JFW | T@lk 06:23, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Review on diagnostics

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2007.09.001 JFW | T@lk 01:52, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback feature

I have been reverting a vandal, but I made a mistake the first time and I think I corrected it the second time. Just started using this so please if I still made any mistakes please bring it to my attentions and I will fix it or always feel free to fix anything I should do. Thank you, --CrohnieGalTalk 11:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I've pruned the external links section. I removed:

  • a dead link (no content),
  • a blog,
  • a link to an organization that provides face-to-face meetings in two cities, and
  • an online support group.

The first three are pretty obvious to most people: for example, Wikipedia is a worldwide encyclopedia, and something that happens half a world a way does you no good. The last one sometimes surprises people, so let me explain. Wikipedia's external links policy and the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles do not generally permit the inclusion of external links to non-encyclopedic material, particularly including internet chat boards and e-mail discussion groups. Here's some specific information from the guidelines:

  • This page, which applies to all articles in the entire encyclopedia, says that links "to social networking sites (such as MySpace or Fan sites), discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), USENET newsgroups or e-mail lists" are to be avoided.
  • This page deprecates ""helpful" external links, such as forums, self-help groups and local charities."
  • This medical-specific page reinforces the pan-Wiki rules, with a note that "All links must meet Wikipedia's external links guidelines, which in particular exclude discussion forums."

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while it may occasionally be useful to patients or their families, it is not a web directory.  Please do not re-insert links that do not conform to the standard rules.  Any editor, BTW, is welcome to read all of the rules and perform another "audit" in the remaining links.  Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:36, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pred of death

doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01836.x - steroids increase mortality, thiopurines do not. JFW | T@lk 10:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HLA - B27

add info about HLA-B27 please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.125.28.127 (talk) 01:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)