The Latvian Association for Crohn's and Colitis Patients was founded on October 19, 2011. The association was created to unite patients with Crohn´s disease and colitis, their relatives, medical staff and other people.
We are pleased to announce that four of our My IBD journey video series are now also available in Russian, the fifth video translation will be released for next World IBD Day.
For many people, diagnosis with inflammatory...
The results of the survey " Patients’ perceptions of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease" have been published this month (16 July) in the Colorectal Disease Journal.
EFCCA has collaborated in this study which was led by Professor Antonino Spinelli (Humanitas Clinical and Research...
We are excited to share our findings of the survey “The impact of perianal fistula in Crohn’s disease on quality of life” which is being presented virtually at the 16th ECCO Congress (2nd – 3rd and 8th – 10th July, 2021.) Check out the e-poster with the full results! #ECCOcongress #...
Our latest EFCCA Patient Talk "(IBD) Families First" took place on 30 June 2021 from 5 - 6 PM.
NEW: Link to register to the focus group of this project: ...
New publication!
The results of the survey "The phenotypic features of couples with IBD and their offspring" have now been published in the Annals of Gastroenterology. The survey has been carried out by Dr Joana Torres from the Gastroenterology...
COVID-19 Vaccine IBD - Perceptions and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone`s...
Nordic food branch Coop removes additives of concern from all new, own brand products
After call from the The Norwegian association for people with digestive diseases
Author: Marte Gylland Hegstad – web editor, Landsforeningen mot fordøyelsessykdommer (LMF)...
On the occasion of World IBD Day EFCCA is pleased to publish a leaflet on IBD and intimacy in order to break the silence around this taboo subject.
It forms part of our World IBD Day 2021 #breakthesilence campaign to raise awareness around the impact the disease has on the general well-...
Friday 5 February 2021, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CET
As part of the EFCCA Patient Talks series, we organised our latest EFCCA Patient Talk which took place on Friday 5 February 2021 from 4.30 to 5.30 pm (CET) at our EFCCA Facebook
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IBD in the workplace
In line with EFCCA´s priority theme for 2020 on Work and IBD this video animation in the series of "My IBD journey" looks at the issue of IBD in the workplace. It provides...