Archive for the 'Liver Disease / Hepatitis' Category


Nanoparticles Being Used As Additives In Diesel Fuels Can Travel From Lungs To Liver, Causing Damage

Recent studies conducted at Marshall University have demonstrated that nanoparticles of cerium oxide - common diesel fuel additives used to increase the fuel efficiency of automobile engines - can travel from the lungs to the liver and that this process is associated with liver damage. The data in the study by Dr. Eric R…


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Saffron Shows Promise In Preventing Liver Cancer

The full study of a new research indicating that Saffron has a significant chemopreventive effect against liver cancer in animals is published in the September issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases…


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Vitamin E Effective For “Silent” Liver Disease

Vitamin E has been shown effective in treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an obesity-associated chronic liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death. NASH also is related to or a part of type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders and cardiovascular disease...
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Vitamin E Helps Those With Fatty Liver Disease

In an NIH-funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, research found that daily vitamin E improved the livers of patients who have a type of liver disease known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The study results are welcome findings because there are currently no approved treatments for the disease, says a Saint Louis University researcher on the project...
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KineMed Describes Innovative Approach To Discover And Develop Drugs To Treat Fibrosis And Identifies Potential Drug For Lung And Liver Fibrosis

Scientists at KineMed, Inc., describe a new way to measure changes in the rates of deposition and breakdown of connective tissue applicable in animals and man. The methods described fill a critical need for better approaches to enable the discovery and development of drugs to treat a range of life-threatening diseases in which excessive deposition of collagen leading to organ dysfunction (fibrosis) plays a key role.
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