I check out a lot of sites online looking for information about IBD but I never expected to find one on the Billboard web site. Yeah, that Billboard. I found this article about Pearl Jam's Mike McCready. He's done a ton of work to help the Northwest Chapter of the CCFA. Back on April 7 he and a bunch of other rockers got together to hold a benefit concert to help send kids to a Paul Newman sponsored camp in California.
"We try to address the social aspect of the disease, so kids are able to talk and learn from each other," McCready tells Billboard.com. "I think a hugely important part of recovery is being able to talk to somebody else who has this disease."
McCready himself is a Crohn's sufferer who's been in remission since the spring of 2005. He credits a largely carbohydrate-less diet and Humira.
Link to Pearl Jam's McCready Keeps Rocking For Crohn's