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• Coumarin In Cinnamon Linked To Liver Damage

  
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  Many kinds of cinnamon, cinnamon-flavored foods, beverages and food supplements in the United States use a form of the spice that contains high levels of a natural substance that may cause liver damage in some sensitive people, scientists are reporting. Their study, published in ACS Journal of Agricultural and Food ...
  1 week ago

• Alcohol And Weight Affect Womens Risk Of Getting And Dying From Liver Disease

  
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  Congress delegates heard this week about a study that showed the deadly effect that high alcohol intake and excess body weight can have on womens chances of developing and dying from chronic liver disease. The researchers analyzed data from over 107,000 women across the United Kingdom to find out how weight and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Simeprevir Administered Once Daily Demonstrates Sustained Virologic Response In Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Patients, Studies Find

  
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  Janssen R&D; Ireland (Janssen) have announced primary efficacy and safety results from two global Phase 3 studies demonstrating that use of the investigational protease inhibitor simeprevir (TMC435) led to sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the end of treatment (SVR12) in 80 and 81 percent, respectively, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Home Health-Care Visits Increase Hepatitis B Screening Rates For Hmong Americans

  
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  In the first study of its kind, lay health workers increased screening rates for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and knowledge about the disease among a group of Asian Americans, known as the Hmong, UC Davis researchers have found. The study appears online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Hmong Americans, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vitamin E May Alleviate Symptoms Of Liver Disease Brought On By Obesity

  
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  A potential new way to fight obesity-related illness has been uncovered, thanks to serendipitous research led by investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The collaborators, from Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Cornell University, discovered the ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA Approves FibroScan(R) For Non-Invasive Liver Diagnosis

  
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  Echosens(TM) is pleased to announce that FibroScan(R) device received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 5th, 2013 and is now ready to market its pioneering technology in the United States. Today, 1800 FibroScan(R) devices are used worldwide both in research and routine clinical ...
  4 weeks ago

• Alcohol and Hepatitis

  
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  Due to their high prevalence in the general population, alcohol use and abuse can be associated with hepatitis B and C virus infections and it has been demonstrated that alcohol plays a role as a contributing factor in the development of liver disease. There is evidence that alcohol abuse accelerates the progression ...
  4 weeks ago

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