Topic: Liver Diseases
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-20 23:10:23
<div><p>US scientists have discovered a way to block replication of the hepatitis C virus, potentially leading to better treatment for the top cause of liver cancer in the United States, a study said Wednesday.</p><p>In vitro experiments identified a protein that is essential to the reproductive cycle of ...
AP Features | 2010-01-11 15:14:32
<div><p>They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.</p><p>In the next 10 years, these two liver-damaging infections will kill about 150,000 people in the U.S. alone ...
isnare | 2010-01-07 04:25:56
A lot of reports suggest that alternative liver cancer treatments have proven to be very effective. These therapies can work along with the conventional treatments. Conventional treatments though are drugs, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Though, these treatments have their own side effects. Alternative liver cancer treatment can assist in lessening the symptoms an in many cases reverse the condition.< ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-03 19:10:29
<div><p>An experimental treatment targeting hepatitis C was able to inhibit replication of the virus in the bloodstream of chimpanzees and could treat chronic infections in humans, a new study said Thursday.</p><p>The treatment works by inhibiting a molecule that helps hepatitis C virus replicate, according to scientists at ...
