29 Jun 2015
John Aitken – Get Your Child A Microscope!
Parents of children sometimes get strange requests for birthday or festive presents. My obsession at the age of ten was to have a microscope. (I wanted to look at a fly’s eye!) Even today, one of my questions to prospective job candidates is: “Did your parents ever give you a microscope as a present when you were a kid?” By following rational and scientific methodology in 1882, Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the world.
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a broad term that describes conditions with chronic or recurring immune response and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The two most common inflammatory bowel diseases are ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. In Crohn’s disease, inflammation can affect the entire digestive tract but is usually centered in the ileum (the final segment of the small intestine) and the beginning part of the colon (large intestine). Ulcerative colitis presents exclusively in the colon. Both illnesses are characterized by an abnormal response to the body’s immune system. They can occur at any age, but often initially develop in teenagers and young adults.