Kevin A. Barnes

Help Team Challenge cross the finish line in Sonoma

Kevin A. Barnes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:34:46 +0000

The Napa-to-Sonoma half marathon is less than three weeks away, and Team Challenge needs your help! If your donations help all seven people I'm mentoring meet their fundraising goal before 11:00 PM Central Time on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, I will publicly shave my head following the 2010 Napa-to-Sonoma half marathon. Read the rest of this entry →

HTML 5, CSS3 and WordPress 3.0

Kevin A. Barnes — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:13:58 +0000

Upgrade time! Since WordPress 3.0 was recently released and I already intended to update the theme I use here on KevinABarnes.com, I decided to leverage the opportunity and also update that theme to use both HTML 5 and CSS3. What … Read the rest of this entry →

Where’s my new body?

Kevin A. Barnes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:58:15 +0000

Many people with chronic illness seem over time to develop a love/hate relationship with their body. They understand the tiniest nuances of how it reacts to specific medications, to different foods, to various environmental factors. But ultimately if you suffer from an incurable, physically compromising illness, there end up being times when you just want to dump your entire body and start over with a healthy new one. Which of course is impossible. Or is it? Read the rest of this entry →

The Best Care in the Air

Kevin A. Barnes — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:38:25 +0000

As a long-time Midwest Airlines customer, it was very very mixed feelings that I watched yesterday's press conference announcing that the Midwest name is going away (to be assimilated into the Frontier Airlines brand). The reality is that Midwest brand didn't disappear with yesterday's press conference ... it's been gone (with the exception of the chocolate chip cookies) for many years. Read the rest of this entry →

Could a Crohn’s medication also cure Alzheimer’s?

Kevin A. Barnes — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:06:46 +0000

Two independent studies published this week (Journal of Biological Chemistry,1 PLoS One2 ) show that the drug rapamycin (also known as sirolimus) reverses the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. Both studies show that rapamycin reduces the level of amyloid-beta-42 … Read the rest of this entry →

Team Challenge Update: Napa-to-Sonoma 2010

Kevin A. Barnes — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:01:26 +0000

Team Challenge Wisconsin is once again participating in the Napa-to-Sonoma Half Marathon. Although I am not running Napa-to-Sonoma this year, I am serving as a mentor for several Team Challenge participants. Each participant spends 16 weeks training to run or walk … Read the rest of this entry →

Pardon our dust

Kevin A. Barnes — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:36:17 +0000

Regular visitors to this website probably have already noticed that I updated the design over the weekend. The changes are intended to accomplish two things — to make the content easier to read and to reduce the time it takes … Read the rest of this entry →

Is psychiatry’s bible still in the dark ages?

Kevin A. Barnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:30:38 +0000

New Scientist recently published an article1 describing the conflict that has emerged in American psychiatry over the upcoming revised version of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), frequently referred to as psychiatry’s bible. From my point of … Read the rest of this entry →

Is generic Remicade (Humira, etc.) in our future?

Kevin A. Barnes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:47 +0000

As part of $3K in 3 Weeks, here is another in a series of articles on current issues and topics related to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Did you know that biologics1 such as Remicade, Humira, and Cimzia – used … Read the rest of this entry →

Research Update: The Human Gut Microbiome Initiative

Kevin A. Barnes — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:26:29 +0000

As part of $3K in 3 Weeks, here is the first in a series of articles on current research initiatives related to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The Human Gut Microbiome Initiative, based at the Genome Center of Washington University … Read the rest of this entry →