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FDA issues "stern" safety warnings on Salix brand Visicol and OsmoPrep bowel cleansers

According to Associated Press business writer Matthew Perrone:   Federal health officials said today, that they will add the sternest safety warnings available to drugs used before colonoscopies, following reports of kidney damage in several patients. The Food and Drug Administration said it has received more than 20 reports of a serious... Read moreChevron

A Bathroom at the Inn--My Top 5 Picks for Urgent Pit Stops on the Road

Whether you're Grandma bound for the holidays, or hitting that long and winding road with another destination in mind, face it--you're going to have to "stop" sometime. Perhaps, another time. Maybe, once more. All right; even a few more times!   Cease the needless worry. I offer you my top five off-road pit stops, in order of general ease... Read moreChevron

Tips for Women before a Colonoscopy

Ladies, yes; we have yet another reason to feel "special": according to a report just published in the November issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch, a new study indicates that women may have a harder time prepping for colonoscopies, than men.   Apparently, this is largely because women are more likely to suffer constipation and/or... Read moreChevron

The Top Ten Ways IBD Has Changed Me

#10-I used to think that "Culturelle" was a moisturizer for dry, chapped hands and flaky elbows.   # 9-I thought "probiotic" described members of the Republican Party.   # 8-Despite my liberal nature, I have come to terms with the fact that I'm not a bad person just because I'm lactose intolerant.   # 7-I've learned that there... Read moreChevron

When You Gotta Go, and They Tell You, "No."

So, I drive, two hours, straight, between Roanoke and Charlottesville. And, I'm feeling pretty smug and full of myself (literally), because I didn't stop even once--not to fill up my cute, little, blazing red, Jeep Liberty Sport, or to unfill my little, now bursting, middle aged bladder.   I'm proud of myself because, by not stopping, I had... Read moreChevron

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