Dr. Jawaher Alharthi, from the Westmead Institute and medical research, University of Sydney, Australia, and her colleagues have discovered how COVID-19 increases the risk of fatty liver disease and how the latter is increasing ...
Dec 15, 2022
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A large team of researchers at Emulate Inc., working with colleagues from several institutions in the U.S., has found that human liver-chips are showing promise as a predictive toxicology tool. In their paper published in ...
Long-term use of high-dose green tea extract may provide some protection against cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes, but it also may create liver damage in a small minority of the population.
Dec 1, 2022
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Gene therapies can treat, even potentially cure, certain genetic diseases, but it is challenging to deliver the treatments to the parts of the body where they are needed. Researchers have engineered viruses called adeno-associated ...
Nov 22, 2022
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The hepatitis vaccines you receive as a child don't protect you from getting hepatitis C, a serious disease that can have fatal consequences including liver damage, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Nov 22, 2022
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An apple a day can keep the doctor away, according to an international study spearheaded by a University of Alabama faculty member.
Nov 8, 2022
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A novel metric that estimates our "burden," or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created by a team of ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Vitamins are one of the most common ways to ensure children receive essential nutrients for growing in the healthiest way possible, but over-the-counter vitamins may be doing more harm than good.
Oct 3, 2022
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes multi-organ damage, including liver dysfunction identified in more than 50% of COVID-19 patients. Liver damage in COVID-19 patients could be attributed to ...
Sep 21, 2022
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The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), one of the most widespread disorders worldwide, is expected to rise by more than 50% by 2030. Non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL), the initial stage of NAFLD, is associated ...
Sep 20, 2022
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