What is Crohn's disease? A hundred years ago, before Crohn's disease had a name, doctors dismissed it as an untreatable illness or possibly a tumor. Doctors didn't know that patients' immune systems, the weapons for battling disease, were attacking their own digestive tracts. In people with Crohn's disease, tissues deep within the lining of the digestive system become inflamed. The inflammation ...

• Chris Woolston
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• March 11, 2013
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