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Old diabetes drug teaches experts new tricks

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center reveals that the drug most commonly used in type 2 diabetics who don't need insulin works on a much more basic level than once thought, treating persistently elevated blood ...


Arsenic linked to cardiovascular disease at EPA-regulated drinking water standards

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created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

When mice are exposed to arsenic at federally-approved levels for drinking water, pores in liver blood vessels close, potentially leading to cardiovascular disease, say University of Pittsburgh researchers in the Dec. 1 issue ...





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Radiology procedure may help increase long-term survival in patients with severe liver cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


64 infected by hepatitis at hospital in China

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created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Police have detained the director of a Chinese hospital where at least 64 people were infected with the potentially deadly liver disease hepatitis C after receiving transfusions from blood collected illegally, state ...


Questions and answers about pain medicine dangers

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Food and Drug Administration panel has recommended limits on Tylenol and other drugs containing acetaminophen because of risks for liver failure. Maximum recommended doses for over-the-counter Tylenol would be ...


Regulating the sugar factory in diabetes

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created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists in Sydney and Boston believe they may have identified a gene that controls abnormal production of sugar in the liver, a very troublesome problem for people with diabetes.


Liver disease 'shrunk' by blood-pressure drug

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created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A blood-pressure medicine has been shown to reverse the effects of early-stage liver failure in some patients.


Artificial liver may extend lives

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The first artificial organ for liver patients that uses immortalized human liver cells, the Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device, or ELAD®, is a bedside system that treats blood plasma, metabolizing toxins and synthesizing ...


Lower tacrolimus doses is suitable for living donor liver transplantation with small-for-size graft

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created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Several studies have shown that living donor liver transplant (LDLT) recipients required smaller doses of tacrolimus compared with deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT) patients, which indicated that liver regeneration could ...


Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis

Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ.


Unexplained liver hemorrhage after metastasis radiofrequency ablation

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Colorectal carcinoma is one of the most common cancers in the world. Approximately one in four of these patients have metastases at diagnosis, liver being the most common site involved. Although historically it was considered ...


Elevated lymphotoxin expression in liver leads to chronic hepatitis and causes HCC

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study maps the pathway that leads from infection with Hepatitis B and C virus (HBV and HCV) to chronic hepatitis and liver cancer and proposes a new therapeutic strategy for treating liver diseases with chronic inflammation. ...



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