How Patients Track symptoms

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Alyssa, This sounds like the project you're working on:

Suffering from Crohn's disease, an inflammatory digestive disorder, Nikolai

Kirienko has to watch for complications, such as life-threatening internal

bleeding in his intestinal tract.

Now, the University of California at Berkeley undergraduate is working with

researchers there on a project called Crohnology.MD. The project will let

Crohn's patients with a smartphone track daily digestive symptoms and sleep

patterns along with signs of anemia, depression and weight loss that could

signal a worsening of the condition, which affects 600,000 Americans. Known as

" observations of daily living, " the data will be charted, along with lab results

and other measures, to create visual trend lines on a website—and viewed by

patient and doctor.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960004575427531544486778.html

I don't know how to activate this address--it's from the Wall Street Journal in

the section called the Informed Patient. " How Life's Details Helps Patients "

Phyllis