Foraging and eating wild mushrooms can result in liver failure and even death because mistaking toxic mushrooms for edible varieties is common, illustrates a case published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Jul 13, 2015
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Acute liver failure is a rare yet life-threatening disease for young children. It often occurs extremely rapidly, for example, when a child has a fever. Yet in around 50 percent of cases it is unclear as to why this happens. ...
Jul 2, 2015
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A fifty-fold between-country difference in rates of paracetamol-induced acute liver failure that leads to liver transplant (ALFT) has been revealed by a study that compared patient data from seven countries at the request ...
May 28, 2015
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A number of new, highly effective oral treatments for various types of hepatitis C have been approved in the past few years. However, two groups who have not benefitted from the new treatments are patients with hepatitis ...
Apr 30, 2015
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It might be possible to heal cirrhotic liver disease by rebooting the genes that control liver cell function, according to researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of ...
Mar 16, 2015
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Drug-induced acute liver failure is uncommon, and over-the-counter medications and dietary and herbal supplements—not prescription drugs—are its most common causes, according to new research from the Perelman School of ...
Mar 3, 2015
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Doctors believe that up to 30 percent of the U.S. population may have fat accumulation in the liver, known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), that can lead to a range of damaging health consequences.
Feb 18, 2015
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Mistletoe hanging in doorways announces that the holidays are just around the corner. For some people, however, the symbolic plant might one day represent more than a kiss at Christmas time: It may mean better liver health. ...
Dec 17, 2014
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Inhibiting a nuclear receptor in the gut could lead to a treatment for a liver disorder that affects almost 30 percent of the Western world's adult population, according to an international team of researchers.
Dec 15, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Using a computer model developed by the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill believe they have solved the mystery of why a diabetes drug ...
Oct 2, 2014
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