Liver Cirrhosis

Liver Cirrhosis - most related articles:

- Curcumin in turmeric may delay liver damage, cirrhosis - 8.4
- Incivek for hepatitis C infection is approved in US - 7.1
- Hepatitis C declines health with liver disease - 6.3
- Hepatitis B hits men harder than women due to an abnormal protein - 5.1
- Vitamin E or metformin not effective in liver disease in children teens - 5.1
- Low carbohydrate diet better than low calorie diet - 4.5
- Weight loss drug orlistat may lead to liver injury - 4.4
- A new drug may improve Hepatitis C - 4.1
- HIV positive have good survival rate after liver transplant - 3.9
- Heart tissue can be saved after heart attacks - 3.4

Liver Cirrhosis articles

Curcumin in turmeric may delay liver damage, cirrhosis
Curcumin, one of the principal components of the Indian spice turmeric, seems to delay the liver damage that eventually causes cirrhosis, suggests preliminary experimental research in the journal Gut.

1 in 25 deaths attributable to alcohol
1 in 25 deaths are directly attributable to alcohol consumption worldwide, revealed by researchers from Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Positive results of Albuferon in Chronic Hepatitis C
Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI) announced that Albuferon (albinterferon alfa-2b) met its primary endpoint of non-inferiority to peginterferon alfa-2a (Pegasys) in ACHIEVE 1, a Phase 3 clinical trial of Albuferon in combination with ribavirin in treatment-naive patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C (p=0.0008).

Heart tissue can be saved after heart attacks
A heart damaged by heart attack is usually broken, at least partially, for good. The injury causes excessive scar tissue to form, and this plays a role in permanently keeping heart muscle from working at full capacity.

Hepatitis C declines health with liver disease
An NIH funded multi-center clinical trial found no benefit from "maintenance therapy," low-dose peginterferon used for hepatitis C patients who have not responded to an initial round of treatment.

MRI for better assessment of liver fibrosis
MRI imagery is emerging as a non-invasive way to determine the existence and extent of hepatic fibrosis. It could eventually help the development of pharmacologic strategies to combat the condition.

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