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Low Sodium Levels Increases Liver Transplant Survival Benefit in the Sickest Patients
Jan. 27, 2015 — Researchers report that low levels of sodium in the blood, known as hyponatremia, increase the risk of dying for patients on the liver transplant waiting list. The study showed an increase in ... full story -
Daily Drinking Increases Risk of Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Jan. 26, 2015 — Although alcohol is the most important risk factor of alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, less is known about the significance of different patterns of drinking. Currently scientists believe that ... full story -
Widespread Hepatitis C Screening May Result in More Harms Than Benefits
Jan. 13, 2015 — Several organizations have recommended scaling up screening for hepatitis C infection. But experts warn that no study has tested whether this will lead to net clinical benefit or harm. Hepatitis C is ... full story -
Novel Method to Predict Postoperative Liver Cancer Recurrence in Transplant Patients
Jan. 13, 2015 — Transplantation researchers have developed a novel method that more accurately calculates the risk of disease recurrence in liver cancer patients who have undergone a liver transplant, providing a ... full story -
Interferon-Free Combination Therapy Prevents Recurrence of HCV After Liver Transplantation
Jan. 9, 2015 — A 24-week course of sofosbuvir and ribavirin can eliminate hepatitis C virus infection in two-thirds of patients who undergo liver transplantation, with positive consequences on their short- and ... full story -
Diabetes Debate: Triglycerides Form in Liver Despite Insulin Resistance
Jan. 5, 2015 — Solving one of the great mysteries of type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers found that triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood and liver, are produced in the liver independent of insulin action in ... full story -
Liver Cirrhosis More Common Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Jan. 4, 2015 — Cirrhosis of the liver is more common than previously thought, affecting more than 633,000 adults yearly. And surprisingly, 69 percent of the adults identified as possibly having cirrhosis may not ... full story -
Neonatal HBV Vaccine Reduces Liver Cancer Risk
Dec. 30, 2014 — Neonatal HBV vaccination reduces the risk of liver cancer and other liver diseases in young adults in China, according to a study. By collecting data on new cases of liver diseases over 30 years from ... full story -
Blocking Excessive Division of Cell Powerhouses Reduces Liver Cell Death in Cholestasis
Dec. 22, 2014 — The power plants that fuel liver cells rapidly splinter when exposed to bile salts that aid digestion, prompting cell death, but blocking this excessive fission appears to protect the liver, ... full story -
What Can Be Done to Prevent Hepatitis C Patients from Being Lost in the Healthcare System?
Dec. 18, 2014 — A new study shows that many patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are lost during different stages of health care to manage the disease. This real-life’ view of the HCV patient care ... full story -
Not Just for the Holidays, Mistletoe Could Fight Obesity-Related Liver Disease
Dec. 17, 2014 — Mistletoe hanging in doorways announces that the holidays are just around the corner. For some people, however, the symbolic plant might one day represent more than a kiss at Christmas time: It may ... full story -
Receptor May Be Key to Treating Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Dec. 15, 2014 — Inhibiting a nuclear receptor in the gut could lead to a treatment for a liver disorder that affects almost 30 percent of the Western world's adult population, according to an international team ... full story -
Daclatasvir for Hepatitis C: Added Benefit Not Proven
Dec. 10, 2014 — The data is unsuitable for virus genotype 4 patients and for untreated genotype 1 patients without cirrhosis; there is no data for genotype 3 patients and three other genotype 1 groups, researchers ... full story -
Leading Medical Experts Call for an End to UK Postcode Lottery for Liver Disease Treatment, Detection
Nov. 26, 2014 — Leading medical experts warn that rising numbers of deaths from liver disease -- already the UK's third commonest cause of premature death -- will be unavoidable without radical improvements in ... full story -
Obese Children Burdened by More Than Weight
Nov. 24, 2014 — High blood pressure and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are two emerging health problems related to the epidemic of childhood obesity. In a recent study, researchers sought to determine the ... full story -
Update on New Treatments for Liver Diseases
Nov. 21, 2014 — Cirrhosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are two serious liver conditions with limited pharmacological treatments. The December issues of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and ... full story -
New Liver Gives Mother of Three a Life Without Pain
Nov. 20, 2014 — A patient's medical problem was diagnosed as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), a disease in which the bile ducts are damaged, causing bile to build up in the liver. Liver-transplant lists are ... full story -
Newly Discovered Hormone Points to Potential Treatment for Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease
Nov. 17, 2014 — Researchers have discovered how a previously unknown hormone serves as a messenger from fat cells to the liver and are investigating the potential of developing a new treatment for metabolic ... full story -
What's the Current Role of Liver Biopsy in Children?
Nov. 14, 2014 — While noninvasive alternatives are increasingly available, liver biopsy still provides essential information in some children with liver disease, according to ... full story -
Life Expectancy Among Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Cirrhosis
Nov. 11, 2014 — Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection and advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis who attained sustained virological response (SVR) had survival comparable with that of the general population, ... full story
- Widespread hepatitis C screening may result in more harms than benefits
- Novel method to predict postoperative liver cancer recurrence in transplant patients
- Life expectancy among patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection, cirrhosis
- 'Landmark' results for curing hepatitis C in liver transplant patients
- New drug for common liver disease improves liver health
- Hepatitis A hospitalization rate declines in U.S.
- Immune cells in liver drive fatty liver disease, liver cancer
- Cell discovery challenges dogma on how fetus develops; holds insights for liver cancer, regeneration
- How metastases develop in the liver
- Hepatitis C will become a rare disease in 22 years, study predicts
- Model of viral lifecycle could help in finding a cure for hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C virus genotype 1 most prevalent worldwide
- New oral drug regimens cure hardest-to-treat hepatitis C infected patients, could improve treatment uptake
- Physician advocates awareness, collaboration to combat peaking Hep C virus
- Mouth bacteria invade gut in liver cirrhosis patients
- Antiviral therapy can prevent liver cancer in chronic hepatitis B patients
- Battle of the bulge occurs in the liver
- Study reverses current thought on treatment of cirrhosis
- Inflammation in fat tissue helps prevent metabolic disease
- Hepatitis B screening now recommended for high risk individuals
- A new model of liver regeneration: Switch causes mature liver cells to revert back to stem cell-like state
- Hepatitis C reactivation doesn't worsen survival for HIV+ patients diagnosed with lymphoma
- Key protein factor linked to alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Hepatitis C virus: How viral proteins interact in human cells
- Bioprinting 3-D liver-like device to detoxify blood
- Urine test best detects alcohol use in liver transplant candidates, recipients
- Liver cancer screening highly beneficial for people with cirrhosis
- New combination therapy for hepatitis C
- Lean patients with fatty liver disease have higher mortality rate
- Weight-loss surgery can reduce liver damage: Study shows reversal of early-stage liver fibrosis after bariatric surgery
- Steroids after surgery do not help infants with rare liver disease
- Mouse model would have predicted toxicity of drug that killed 5 in 1993 clinical trial
- Breaking bad mitochondria: How hepatitis C survives for so long
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