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• Vibrating Technology Promises to Replace Biopsies in Diagnosing Diseased Tissue

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), developed at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic , uses low frequency sound waves to determine whether tissues and organs are too stiff, a sign of trouble Biopsies , although invasive and unpleasant, are typically the best way to diagnose the health of human tissue, especially the ...
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• NVHR: New Data Finding Fewer Than 1 In 5 Hepatitis C Patients Receiving Antiviral Therapy Is Wake-Up Call For Washington

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  New peer-reviewed data finding that fewer than one-fifth of the nearly 4 million Americans infected with chronic hepatitis C virus have received anti-viral therapy in recent years should be a wake-up call that Congress needs to move urgently on bipartisan legislation to support new state-based detection, research, and ...
  2 days ago

• Tripep: The ChronVac-C(R) Study Has Been Successfully Completed With Good Safety And Favorable Clinical Data

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  All samples from the 12 patients with chronic Hepatitis C genotype 1 treated with Tripeps therapeutic vaccine ChronVac-C® have now been collected. The treatment was found to be safe, immunogenic and had transient effects on the serum levels of hepatitis C virus. This provides a proof-of-concept for the therapeutic ...
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• Doctors Leaders Urge Politicians To Put Party Politics Aside And Support The Alcohol Bill In Scotland

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 158
  Link: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172321.php BMA Scotland welcomed the introduction of the Alcohol (Scotland) Bill, and called on politicians to put party politics aside and support the measures outlined in the legislation. The BMA also expressed disappointment at the Labour Partys decision not to ...
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• What Is Liver Cancer? What Causes Liver Cancer?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Liver cancer begins in the cells of the liver. The liver is a football-sized organ that sits in the upper right portion of the abdomen. The liver carries out many vital functions, such as digesting proteins and fats, removing toxins from the body, producing chemicals that stop blood clotting and releasing bile in ...
  4 days ago

• Human Genome Sciences Submits Biologics License Application To FDA For ZALBIN™

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI) announced that it has submitted a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ZALBIN™ (albinterferon alfa-2b) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
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• In The Pharmacy. When You Order Drugs .

  
  Health - Wellness Guide — Authority: 440
  Asking medicine in indian pharmacy , try to pronounce it correctly, the better to show the recipe, where it was spelled. Excellent, if you immediately say for treatment of what disease you were prescribed the medicine – in the pharmacy a great variety of different drugs, for example, there is Sildenfail pill ...
  6 days ago

• What Is Cirrhosis? What Causes Cirrhosis?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Cirrhosis is an abnormal liver condition in which there is irreversible scarring of the liver. The main causes are sustained excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis B and C, and fatty liver disease - however, there are many possible causes. People with cirrhosis may develop jaundice (yellowing of the skin, ...
  6 days ago

• Antiviral Therapy To Treat Hepatitis C Is Declining In The US, An Alarming Trend

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates appear to be declining, in part because only half of the patients know they are infected.
  1 week ago

• Metobolomics Uncovers Key Indicators Of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  A recent metobolomics study by researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond found that impaired peroxisomal oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is associated with the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
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• US: NM: Report: Alcohol abuse cost NM $2.5 billion in 2006

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 158
  Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010356418_apuscostofalcoholabusenewmexico.html?syndication=rss By HEATHER CLARK Alcohol abuse cost New Mexico 993 lives and nearly $2.5 billion in 2006 in lost productivity, health care expenses and costs associated with property loss from crashes ...
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• New Data Emerges On Liver Transplant Survival Rates

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Researchers at the University of Miami School of Medicine compared the outcomes of cirrhotic patients who underwent liver transplants for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) versus alcoholic liver disease (ETOH) and found no statistically significant differences in post-transplant survival rates between the NASH and ...
  1 week ago

• Patients with Nonalcoholic Liver Disease Qualify for Transplant ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are candidates for liver transplants, but may be at increased risk of complications from metabolic syndrome, researchers say.
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• Ocera Therapeutics, Pursuing New Drug for Liver, Hopes to Help People Stay Mentally Sharp

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 674
  Biotech , Liver Disease , Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: The liver is hot in the biotech world. Cambridge, MA-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ) has made headlines this year with an antiviral drug that it hopes will do for hepatitis C—a chronic liver-damaging condition affecting millions of ...
  1 week ago

• Alarming trend -- antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
  Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates appear to be declining, in part because only half of the patients know they are infected.
  1 week ago

• Pharmasset Announces The Continued Enrollment Of The Phase 2b Clinical Trial Of RG7128 For The Treatment Of Hepatitis C

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced that the enrollment of Cohort 2, led by its partner Roche (SWX: ROG.VX; RO.S, OTCQX: RHHBY), will continue for the remaining 300 genotype 1 and 4 patients in the ongoing phase 2b trial of RG7128, a first-in-class nucleoside analog polymerase inhibitor for the treatment of ...
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• Medical Insurance Plans

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 152
  In recent years the number of people who report critically on the disease has grown at a phenomenal rate in the UK. People suffering from various diseases such as asthma, cardiovascular complications, liver disease and high blood pressure to fill in almost all parts of the country. Doctors and medical experts, ...
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• Increasing Long-Term Survival In Patients With Severe Liver Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patients chance of long-term survival, according to a study published in ...
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• Simple test to predict a person’s likelihood of breaking hip

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, November 20 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a questionnaire that will help determine an individual’s chances of breaking their hips.Experts at the University of Nottingham have developed the system of QFractureScores for patients at risk of osteoprosis, or brittle bone disease.The system can speculate ...
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• Toward Explaining Why Hepatitis B Hits Men Harder Than Women

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder than women. Their study has been published online in ACS Journal of Proteome Research, a monthly ...
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