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Received this article today on a google alert.

http://www.orlandomedicalnews.com/micro ... s-cms-1629
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Hi Denise,

I didn't read the entire article, but it appears to be based on obsolete information. For example, their stated prevalence for MC is waaaaaaaay off. They claim that only about 9 people per 100,000 have the disease, but actually MC is more common than celiac disease. That means that it is more than a hundred times more common than they claim in the article.

Also, there are at least a dozen known different types of MC, not 2, as they claimed.

It's good to see the disease getting a little publicity. It's just a shame that such articles are rarely very accurate with the details.

Thanks for the link.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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