Understanding the disease Archives

Patient Support Programs: personalized digital adherence support

09/05/2023

What are PSPs? Patient Support Programs are specifically designed to help patients in understanding their condition and taking medications directly. They can range from simple interventions such as the provision of pill boxes, to more complex solutions, for example organized programs with their roots in behavioral science theory.1,2 Whereas healthcare professionals may only have time-limited…

Digestive Health

How does irritable bowel syndrome affect your life?

05/05/2023

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms have a significant impact on you and your life. IBS can affects multiple aspects of your life: work, social, home and family.1 Day-to-day, this can make it hard to function in a way that feels normal.1 For some people with IBS, this means withdrawing from social situations or struggling to…

Digestive Health

How does IBS affect your body?

14/04/2021

Doctors believe that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be a problem with how your brain and gut work together, which is known as the brain–gut axis.3 In IBS, there is a problem with the way the bowels, also called the gut, work that is not related to their structure; the gut does not function normally.1…

Digestive Health

Talk to your doctor to improve your experience with your symptoms

14/04/2021

Why should you talk to your doctor? You may be experiencing symptoms in your gut that have led you to treat yourself using over-the-counter medicines or natural or homemade remedies. How you choose to manage your condition is up to you. If you feel like you need more information, or if you feel like you…

Digestive Health