Archive for the ‘Liver Disease / Hepatitis’ Category
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A team of senior doctors from the Association of British Hujjaj (Pilgrims) UK, a national charitable organisation, have issued a strong warning to British overseas travellers to South Asian countries and other developing countries that they must take extra care to protect themselves from infectious diseases like Hepatitis. The senior ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
A study published in the journal Gut reports thattoo much fast food and too little exercise can harm the liver. Swedish researchers selected 18 thin, healthy volunteers - 12 men and 6women - to attempt a 5 to 15% body weight increase by eating at leasttwo fast-food-based meals per day ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel, small molecule compounds for the treatment of HIV-1 and HCV and Numerate, Inc., a biotechnology company with a proprietary drug engineering platform, announced today that they have entered into a research collaboration to discover and develop novel ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCLN) and Sigma-Tau S.p.A reported promising blinded interim data from a large, randomized phase 3 clinical trial evaluating ZADAXIN® (thymalfasin) in combination with pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin as a treatment for patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who have not responded to prior therapy ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
William F. Balistreri, MD, Editor of The Journal of Pediatrics, has been honored with the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) 2007 Distinguished Service Award, recognizing his sustained commitment and contribution to the AASLD as well as to the liver disease community. He is the first pediatrician ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Adelaide scientists will lead a $2 million five-year project to develop new vaccines and explore better treatment options for hepatitis C sufferers.University of Adelaide virologists Dr Michael Beard and Dr Karla Helbig will work with colleagues from the University of NSW to develop new strategies to treat and prevent hepatitis ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
The California Assembly on Jan. 29 voted 46-16 to approve legislation (AB 158) that would require the state Department of Health Care Services to set up the Hepatitis B Prevention and Management Pilot Program Fund within the Office of Multicultural Health, Asian Week reports. The program would give grants to ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Liver transplant is a life saving treatment option for people with end-stage liver disease. Unfortunately, the need for donor livers far exceeds the supply. Each year only about one-third of people who need a donor liver will receive one, and some patients die while waiting. In the February issue ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Researchers discover the origin of hereditary hemochromatosis, a common iron overload disorder, is a genetic defect in the liverMuch less widely known than the dangerous consequences of iron deficiencies is the fact that too much iron can also cause problems. The exact origin of the genetic iron overload disorder hereditary ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
A compound that naturally occurs in grapefruit and other citrus fruits may be able to block the secretion of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from infected cells, a process required to maintain chronic infection. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) report that ...
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