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Interferon-free, treat-all approach cost effective, beneficial for chronic HCV May 21, 2013 ORLANDO, Fla. — An orally administered, interferon-free regimen with a treat-all approach for patients with chronic hepatitis C may be more beneficial and more cost effective than interferon-based triple therapy, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week. Researchers used a decision…
Blood Tests OK for Fibrosis Dx in Hep C By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage TodayPublished: June 03, 2013Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD ; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaAction Points While liver biopsy remains the gold standard for predicting disease progression in people with HCV infection, it…
Alcohol is killing too many of us It gets ever cheaper and now it’s linked to over a million hospital admissions a year. Minimum unit pricing would be a good startMan drinking a pint‘Availability of alcohol has multiplied far beyond the local pub.’ Photograph: Johnny Green/PA In 2011-12, there were over 1.2m alcohol-related hospital admissions…
So here we have the Trinity. All connected, all related. All of them life-threatening, all of them awful. All of them symptomatic of End Stage Liver Disease, all of them part and parcel of life with cirrhosis. Ascites, Varices and Hepatic Encephalopathy. All due to portal hypertension as the root cause. None of them curable.…
by Annalisa Lista – 04.24.2013 | Comments | Print | Since binge drinking and related diseases have increased over the past 5 years in Ireland, the RCPI Policy Group on Alcohol have listed a series of recommendations in order to reduce this phenomenon. According to data released, alcohol consumption is especially popular among people…
Provisional figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show that in 2012, nearly half of liver disease admissions to hospitals in England were for alcoholic liver disease (47.7%, or 16,510 out of 34,650), and approximately 1 in 8 of these resulted in a hospital death (12.3%, or 2,030 out of 16,510). These…
Disease Management – “What?” I hear you say. Yep, that’s right, disease management! If you read the previous article you will no doubt realize that the medical profession is limited in what it can do to help you. It is important for you to realize this and equally, I think it important that they (the…
In this series of articles we have explored some of the aspects of the disease. But the effects of the disease go far beyond where you might expect them to go. Apart from cirrhosis forcing you into a mental battle of enormous proportions, the spread it its impact has huge and detrimental collateral damage on…
Pouring granulated sugar on wounds ‘can heal them faster than antibiotics’ Folk medicine from Africa may hold the key to treating wounds that defy modern medicine Sugar draws water from the wound into a dressing which accelerates the healing process By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 19:11 EST, 14 February 2013 | UPDATED: 05:34 EST, 15 February…
Common bacteria may cause autoimmune liver disease Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 – 13:42 in Health & Medicine A bacteria commonly found in soil and water triggered autoimmune symptoms in mice similar to those found in an incurable liver disease called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC). Reporting their findings in the May 15 Cell Host &…