Common toxin linked to liver disease
Liver disease is usually caused by one of three factors: alcohol consumption, fat buildup in the liver linked to obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol, or hepatitis B and C.
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Mechanism that aggravates metabolic fatty liver disease discovered
An international collaborative study has identified the E2F2 protein as a potential new therapeutic target to prevent metabolic fatty liver disease from progressing toward more serious conditions, such as cirrhosis or liver ...
Oct 22, 2025
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Macrophages can fuel liver cancer spread by supplying acetate to tumor cells
Chinese researchers have revealed a mechanism that triggers metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)—the most common type of primary liver cancer—through the production of acetate by tumor-associated macrophages.
Oct 21, 2025
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Common heart medication shows promise against liver cancer
Liver cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, but a new study shows the solution to targeting this difficult-to-treat disease may already exist.
Oct 14, 2025
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In hepatitis B vaccine debate, CDC panel sidesteps key exposure risk
The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children. This comes despite a failed attempt to do so at the most recent meeting of the ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Simple blood test can predict risk of severe liver disease
A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal The BMJ, shows how a simple blood analysis can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease. The method may already start to be applied in primary care ...
Sep 29, 2025
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Hepatitis B shot for newborns has nearly eliminated childhood infections with this virus in the US
Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday—about half of them at birth. About 90% ...
Sep 22, 2025
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RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot for children
A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying until age 4 the hepatitis B vaccine that's currently ...
Sep 16, 2025
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Low hepatitis B surface antigen levels signal minimal liver cancer risk, redefining 'partial cure'
Researchers from National Taiwan University Hospital and Academia Sinica have identified a simple blood marker that can reliably pinpoint chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients at negligible risk of developing liver cancer.
Sep 12, 2025
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Cholesterol medication shows potential as a novel treatment for liver cancer
A research team from the Department of Pathology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has discovered that atorvastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, could become a powerful new weapon ...
Sep 12, 2025
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