AbbVie steps up to the plate with MLB player for IBD awareness

When Dex­ter Fowler was di­ag­nosed with ul­cer­a­tive col­i­tis at age 22, he bought a book called Crohn’s and Col­i­tis for Dum­mies. There were few on­line re­sources to help him nav­i­gate his con­di­tion back then. Now it’s part of the rea­son why the re­cent­ly re­tired Ma­jor League Base­ball play­er is team­ing with Ab­b­Vie on its lat­est in­flam­ma­to­ry bow­el dis­ease ini­tia­tive.

Ab­b­Vie is launch­ing the Crohn’s and Col­i­tis Com­pan­ion web­site and ed­u­ca­tion re­source to­day as a way to help pa­tients and physi­cians learn about their dis­ease along with tools — such as a re­stroom ac­cess card — to help man­age.

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