• The CDAI (Crohn's Disease Activity Index) Calculator can be used to keep track of your condition from week to week. It's often used to quantify severity of disease for clinical research testing.
  
  
• Liz Parrott hosts the Health Care Problems site, for collecting peoples' experiences of problems with the U.S. health care system. Patients, medical and insurance professionals, HR people and employers, and legal professionals, are all encouraged to contribute their stories.
  
  
• Ben is hosting IBD Answers, an active community for IBD patients, with news updates and articles about IBD.
  
  
• Sophie Lee is hosting IBS Tales, where you can read the personal experiences of irritable bowel syndrome sufferers and share your own story. There's a discussion area, too.
  
  
• Tom Robinson, who has Crohn's Disease himself, provides Life Coaching for People with Chronic Illness. He gives them the support and encouragement they often need (and deserve) to meet the challenges of their illness and have higher quality, more fulfilling lives.
  
  
• Dr. Paul McMurrick FRACS is a colorectal surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He's got a web site at www.colorectal.com.au. He was trained at the Mayo Clinic.
  
  
• Steve Hudson has published a UK CD/UC Contacts page with the usual info and links about IBD and contact information about folks in the UK with IBD.
  
  
• Lucy Shriver runs The Gluten Free Kitchen and Club Celiac (a childrens' site). Both of these deal with Celiac Sprue, a gluten-intolerance condition.
  
  
• The Irritable Bowel Self-Help Group is alive and well. It seems their link got erased from my pages some time. It's maintained by Jeffrey Roberts, and has lots of good stuff for IBS sufferers.
  
  
• A new Crohn's Page in Sweden run by Sandra is just beginning. It's in English.
  
  
• The IBD Page page is run by Steve Holland, M.D. He's a researcher and physician at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, and contributes regularly to the IBDList and the alt.support.crohns-colitis newsgroup.
  Steve has participated in a study of the use of Heparin in Ulcerative Colitis.
  
  
• Peter Waite's the IBD Bookstore includes book reviews & abstracts on Crohn's, IBD, and chronic illness.
  
  
• The J-Pouch Group is a site run by Bill Johnson. He concentrates on issues around the ileoanal anastomosis surgery.
  
  
• Scott Adams hosts the Celiac Support Page, providing "people who have Celiac Disease (aka Gluten Intolerance) ... with a means of figuring out what their problem is, and ... lead more comfortable and healthy lives." Scott has greatly enhanced this page since I first looked at it and listed it here. He also hosts a mailing list for Celiac Disease. You can find info on it here.
  
  

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