January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined
due to illness)
►February 7, 2004 -
Researchers team up to seek genetic roots in bowel disease cases
- The Arizona Republic - "Researchers in Phoenix and Tucson are collaborating on
a study to find the genetic roots of inflammatory bowel disease, which affects
up to 1 in 500 people in developed countries such as the United States."
►February 6, 2004 - Coeliac
Disease - the Tip of the Iceberg -
University of
Bristol via www.newswise.com - "The
full extent of a hidden condition which goes largely undetected among British
children - and unnoticed until adulthood - has been identified by doctors in
Bristol...Their research suggests that until now the scale of coeliac disease
among UK children has been under-estimated. Currently, fewer than one in 2,500
children is treated for the disease, but the study of children in Bristol has
shown that it probably affects one child in 100, although most have no overt
symptoms."
►February 6, 2004 - Child
gut disorder underestimated - The number of young people affected by wheat
intolerance may have been underestimated, research suggests. - BBC
January 19-25, 2004
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January 12-18, 2004
►January 13, 2004 - New
MMR jab scare - www.femail.co.uk
- "Safety fears over MMR have been increased still further by a study which
detected signs of a chronic viral infection in the bowels of children who became
autistic after the jab...The virus - feared to come from the measles component
of the injection - appears to have sparked an abnormal response of the immune
system similar to that in patients with HIV...In October last year his former
colleague Dr Simon Murch insisted that he had always supported the
vaccine...However, he is a co-author with Dr Wakefield of the latest paper which
concludes there is further evidence of a new form of bowel disease in children
with 'regressive autism' - losing the power of speech and becoming autistic."
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