Newslettters
The CCSG publishes two types of newsletters; local and national. Here in Auckland the local newsletter is CCSG News. More recently a national newsletter Gut Feeling has been started which contains a greater amount of medical input and opinion as well as news from the CCSGs from all over NZ. The CCSG also produces an occaisional information sheet called IBD Notes (Auckland members only).
Your letters and feedback are welcome. Letters should not be any more than 250 words long and the editors reserve the right to edit submissions for length and clarity. Not all letters will be published.
Please include your contact details on all correspondance. Unsigned letters will not be published.
Write to: Letters, PO Box 24-171, Royal Oak, Auckland, NZ,
or email the CCSG
CCSG News is published quarterly. It advertises public meetings, provides information about CCSG Services and publishes members letters. It's main functions are: 1) to inform members about the CCSG Library, and new books with reviews and ratings; 2) advertise local support group meetings; 3) report on local activities, and; 4) be a forum for members input. The following sections are online.
The following content is sourced from CCSG News Volume 7/34 and volume 8, issues 35, 36, 37 & 38.
Blood Tests, Biopsies and Specimens
- Dr Lyndsae Wheen (Pathologist, Middlemore Hospital)
Issues in the Management of Paeditric
IBD - Ferring IBD Symposium
An Evening with Dr Mark Lane (CCSG
Patron and gastroenterologist)
See Archive for more articles
Positive Options for Crohn's Disease: Self
Help and Treatment - Joan Gomez (reviewed by Staff Writer)
The Culinary Couple's Creative Colitis Cookbook
- Denise and Ross Weale (reviewed by Staff Writer)
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired
- P. Donohue & M. Siegel
Ask Audrey - Audrey Kron
Will of Iron - P. Nielsen
IBD: A Guide for Patients and Their Families
- S. Stein & R. Rood
Coping with Yor Child's Chronic
Illness - Alesia Singer
See CCSG Library pages for more
reviews
MMR Vaccine Does Not Increase the Risk of
IBD
See Archive for articles
Chicken Pox and Crohn's
Disease - What are the risks? | Glossary
of IBD Terms | IBD and
the Internet - Humour | Alternative
Therapy Used by Almost 40% of CCSG Members |
Health Services Directory | Stress
Management Techniques | Medical
Terms and Definitions | The
10 Commandments for Reducing Stress | Brain
Teasers and Solutions | Things
You Don't Want To Hear During Surgery | Top
5 Reasons Computers Must be Male/Female | Cartoon
- IBD and the Internet |
The following content is sourced from Gut
Feeling Issues 1 and 2.
All But The Surgery - Professor
Graham Hill (CCSG Patron)
Australian & NZ IBD Family Research
Project
Cancer Risk in IBD - Dr Alan Fraser
(gastroenterologist, Universtiy of Auckland)
The following content is sourced from Gut
Feeling Issues 3 and 4.
Colon Cancer Risk in IBD (Part
II) - Dr Mark Lane
DDW Report: The Power of Positive
Thinking
DDW Report: Infliximab: The Current
Knowledge
Chicken Pox and Crohn's Disease
- Dr Mark Lane
on...
Auckland CCSG Inc
Canterbury CCSG Inc
Marlborough CCSG Inc
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