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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Sharia offers an unusual cure for chain smoking and assorted health problems: KUALA LUMPUR ( Reuters ) - Two Malaysians died and one was severely injured in a ritual designed to help a man overcome his chain-smoking habit and to rid his wife of her asthma and liver diseases. State news agency Bernama reported that four close relatives smashed the couple's heads on a table and beat them with crash helmets...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Two Malaysians died and one was severely injured in a ritual designed to help a man overcome his chain-smoking habit and to rid his wife of her asthma and liver diseases.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
The public has recently been warned about the chemical compound Bisphenol A (BPA), commonly used in plastic packaging for food and beverages. To correspond with a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing on BPA, the September 17 issue of JAMA contains a report that finds an association between higher levels of urinary BPA and cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and liver-enzyme abnormalities....
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
It is reasonably safe to argue that awareness of HIV has increased to a point where much of the world recognises it as a life-threatening problem. Few people by now can have missed, at some level, the stories, images, public health campaigns or evidence attached to HIV/AIDS, the world's highest profile blood-borne killer virus. However, many of those same people might well plead ignorance of the other,...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published final guidance on the use of Entecavir and Telbivudine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. NICE produced these two pieces of guidance as part of its rapid single technology appraisal (STA) work programme.
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Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Protein protects liver against accumulation of excess bile; implications for treating liver diseases
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have found that sorafenib (Nexavar) helps patients with advanced liver cancer live about 44 percent longer compared with patients who did not receive the anti-cancer drug. The findings, published in the July 23rd, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is a significant advance in the management of liver cancer, which is the third...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A new study in the journal Psychophysiology reveals that men, but not women, vaccinated in the morning produced a better peak antibody response to both hepatitis A and the influenza strain. Led by Anna Catriona Phillips of the University of Birmingham, researchers assessed the response to a hepatitis A vaccine in young healthy adults and also examined responses to the annual influenza vaccination in...
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http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Communities face appalling health problems. In Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, drinking water is saline and polluted, with a high content of metals that causes a range of diseases. Over the past 15 years there has been a thirty-fold increase in chronic bronchitis and in kidney and liver diseases, especially cancer and arthritic diseases have increased sixty-fold. The infant mortality rate is one of the...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
With the launch of the Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland Phase II, the Scottish Government has promised over £43 million to help tackle the spread of this virus. The plan will help to significantly improve testing, treatment, care and support services for Hepatitis C across Scotland. In addition, in order to increase prevention, national education and awareness initiatives will also be increased....
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
In rats with diethyl nitrosamine induced cirrhosis, TSP-1 expression has been found to correlate with the progression of fibrosis. Furthermore, TSP-1 expression was higher in rat livers with high vascular density - in other words, angiogenesis. This study, performed by a team led by Dr. Gulsum Ozlem Elpek, is described in a research article published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Hepatitis C is a health care problem all over the world, with 130 million patients infected the world over. The treatment is expensive and has variable results according to the genotype of the infecting virus. The first land mark in treatment is the virus clearance at the end of the treatment called End Treatment Response (ETR), but many of the patients achieving the ETR have a relapse within the next...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Alcoholic threshold effect rather than a dose-response effect on mortality from alcohol-related liver injury. Alcohol intake, rather than the type of alcoholic beverage, was more significant to liver injury.This study, performed by a team led by by Professor You-Ming Li from Zhejiang University, is described in a research article published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Variceal hemorrhaging is associated with a high mortality rate. The early detection of esophageal varices is critical for the effective prevention of variceal hemorrhage.In daily medical practice, it is common to encounter patients with liver damage from chronic alcohol consumption. When the alcoholic patient is examined, it is often evident that alcoholic liver damage is progressing.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Researchers have made great strides in identifying the mechanisms and associations involved in liver diseases to devise better treatments. Results showing that liver cells can be created from embryonic stem cells; that innate immunity influences the response of patients to treatment for chronic hepatitis C; and a potential link between recurrent urinary tract infections and primary biliary cirrhosis...
