My wife's Syrian uncle had a large, destructive dog called Hulagu, which died recently of an intestinaldisorder after trying to eat more of the household furniture than he could safely chew.
In 1999 Isis' (nasdaq: ISIS - news - people ) long-awaited drug for Crohn's disease, a severe intestinaldisorder, failed to outperform a sugar pill in a pivotal test with 300 patients.
This is a big deal for the one in 133 (or three million) Americans who have celiac disease (an autoimmune disorder that damages the intestinal lining and causes a vast array of gastro-intestinal and other symptoms) and are tired of guessing at which products are safe for them to consume.