Health
Researchers find walking a dog to be especially good behavior for nursing students
Auburn University researchers recommend nursing students take a dog for a walk to improve the students' own health and wellness.
Nov 8, 2019
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Fatty Liver Disease
Medical research
Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease
A newly-discovered molecular mechanism that allows damaged adult liver cells to regenerate could pave the way for drugs to treat conditions such as cirrhosis or other chronic liver diseases where regeneration is impaired.
Nov 4, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Liver cancer deaths climb by around 50% in the last decade
Liver cancer deaths have increased by around 50% in the last decade and have tripled since records began, according to the latest calculations by Cancer Research UK.
Nov 1, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers develop noninvasive method to detect early-stage liver disease
A safer and more sensitive contrast dye for MRI tests developed by a team led by Georgia State University researchers may provide the first effective, noninvasive method for detecting and diagnosing early-stage liver diseases, ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Genetics
Obesity exacerbates many causes of death, but risks are different for men and women
People who carry around unhealthy amounts of weight don't just have heart disease and diabetes to worry about. Obesity is implicated in two thirds of the leading causes of death from non-communicable diseases worldwide and ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Medical research
Accumulation of DNA mutations found in healthy liver leads to disease
New insights into the journey from health to disease in the human liver have been made by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, the University of Cambridge and their collaborators. ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Preclinical research helps explain why fatty livers are more susceptible to cancer
Fatty liver disease is contributing to an increase in liver cancer and basic scientists at The University of Texas Health Science at Houston (UTHealth) have new insight as to why.
Oct 17, 2019
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Genetics
Cell family trees tracked to discover their role in tissue scarring and liver disease
Researchers have discovered that a key cell type involved in liver injury and cancer consists of two cellular families with different origins and functions.
Oct 15, 2019
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HIV & AIDS
Drug reverses signs of liver disease in people living with HIV
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston report that the injectable hormone tesamorelin reduces liver fat and prevents liver fibrosis (scarring) ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Medical research
Exploring better fatty liver remedies
Obesity often leads to increased accumulation of fat in the liver, which can, over time, result in diabetes, poor liver function, and liver cancer. It's increasingly a problem affecting obese children and young people who ...
Sep 20, 2019
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