Monthly Archives: July, 2016

Online Clinical Trial: The Effects of Food on IBS and IBD, Northwestern and Rush Universities, July 2016

The following online clinical trial seeking adult volunteers with either irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or any form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was received recently via the social media of Oak Park Behavioral Medicine located in suburban Chicago. Oak Park Behavioral Medicine is a private practice partnership of psychologist, Tiffany Taft, PsyD and social worker, Stephanie Horgan, …

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Representatives Engel of New York and Pocan and Kind of Wisconsin Co-Sponsor HR 2311 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders

According to IFFGD/the Digestive Health Alliance and the official Congressional legislative database Congress.gov, Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY-16), Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI-2), and Ron Kind (D-WI-3) have recently signed on as a co-sponsors to the Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Research Enhancement Act of 2015. Representative Engel is serving his fifteenth term in the House of Representatives. His current district, the 16th Congressional District of New York …

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Representative Duffy of Wisconsin Co-Sponsors HR 2311 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders

According to IFFGD/the Digestive Health Alliance and the official Congressional legislative database Congress.gov, Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI-7) has recently signed on as a co-sponsor to the Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Research Enhancement Act of 2015. Representative Duffy is serving his third term in the House of Representatives. His district, the 7th Congressional District of Wisconsin, encompasses the northwestern and …

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