UAB study to help fight liver disease - Everything Alabama Blog
26 May 2012, 8:32 am
UAB is a leader in a sweeping policy change proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fight liver failure and cancer. The University of Alabama at Birmingham and two other medical centers are doing clinical research ...

Obesity Rates Increasing Risk of liver Disease Among Teens - Med India
26 May 2012, 4:29 am
The rising rates of obesity have increased the risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among teenagers and has also reduced the availability of healthy livers required for organ donations, a new study presented at the Digestive Disease Week ...

Student of liver And Vascular Surgery of West China Hospital of Sichuan University Addresses The 18th ILTS Annual Meeting in the United States - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 9:02 am
CHENGDU, China, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Recently, Wang Qiao, the eight-year program student of liver and Vascular Surgery of West China Hospital tutored under Yan Lynan, went to San Francisco to attend the 18th ILTS (International ...

liver disease 'time bomb' warning - The Independent
25 May 2012, 5:13 am
A national screening programme is needed to tackle the "ticking time bomb" of liver disease caused by alcohol, obesity and hepatitis, according to a top doctor. Dr Mark Wright, a consultant hepatologist at Southampton General Hospital, has called for ...

The real baby blues: Two-year-old is kept alive by spending 12 hours a day under lights to combat rare liver disease - Daily Mail
24 May 2012, 6:04 am
A brave two-year-old girl suffering from a rare killer liver condition has to stay in a cot under bright blue ultra violet light to keep her alive. Areesha Shehzad must spend 12 hours a day under the bright blue phototherapy rays in her cot to prevent ...

Stopping drug-induced liver injury - Healthcanal.com
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Scientists at the University are working with the European pharmaceutical industry to find new ways of assessing whether drugs are likely to cause liver damage in humans. The £29 million initiative, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and ...

Seven foods that will naturally cleanse your liver - Natural News.com
22 May 2012, 10:56 pm
(NaturalNews) The primary way in which your body expels toxins is via the liver, which detoxifies and cleanses your body by continuously filtering the blood of poisons that enter it through the digestive tract, the skin, and the respiratory system.

Bovine TB disguised by liver fluke - Nature.com
22 May 2012, 10:53 am
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) could be spreading across Britain because the most widely used test for the disease is ineffective when cattle are infected with a common liver parasite. Researchers tested milk from dairy herds across England and Wales for ...

All boomers need hep C test for liver, CDC says - msnbc.com
18 May 2012, 2:39 pm
Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in draft recommendations issued Friday. The often undiagnosed virus is contracted ...

Fatty liver Disease Rises Among Heaviest Teens - ABC News
18 May 2012, 8:49 am
Nearly 10 percent of U.S. teens have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a largely silent accumulation of fat in their liver cells that puts them at risk for developing later cardiovascular disease and additional liver problems, new research has found.