News tagged with liver diseases

Balding disease killing Australia's wombats

A mystery liver disease thought to be caused by introduced weeds is causing hairy-nosed wombats in southern Australia to go bald and die, researchers said Tuesday.

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows soy protein alleviates symptoms of fatty liver disease

University of Illinois researchers report this week that new research shows how soy protein could significantly reduce fat accumulation and triglycerides in the livers of obese patients by partially restoring the function ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Auburn scientists find tar balls are better left alone

(PhysOrg.com) -- The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the waves of tar balls deposited on the beaches shortly thereafter prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scalable amounts of liver and pancreas precursor cells created using new stem cell production method

Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify new class of antimalarial compounds

An international team led by scientists from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) and The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a family of chemical compounds that could lead ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists make human blood protein from rice

Scientists at a Chinese university said Monday they can use rice to make albumin, a protein found in human blood that is often used for treating burns, traumatic shock and liver disease.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Good housekeeping maintains a healthy liver

Differences in the levels of two key metabolic enzymes may explain why some people are more susceptible to liver damage, according to a study in the October 17 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors

(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Pfizer will stop selling poultry-pumping drug: US

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will voluntarily suspend US sales of a poultry-pumping additive after studies showed it can leave traces of arsenic in chicken livers, the US government said on Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

14 dead in Germany as cucumber crisis grows

Germany on Monday held crisis talks amid reports that at least 14 people have died and hundreds are ill in an outbreak of a highly virulent strain of bacteria found on imported cucumbers.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sweden E. coli cases rise to 39

The number of E. coli poisoning cases in Sweden rose to 39 on Monday, 15 of which are serious, health officials said.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Germany holds crisis meeting as killer bacteria spreads

Germany called crisis talks Monday over warnings that an outbreak of E. coli bacteria poisoning, which is believed to have already left 10 dead, was still spreading.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US approves second new hepatitis C drug

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Incivek to treat hepatitis C when taken along with the current two-drug regimen, marking the second such drug approval this month.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US regulators approve new hepatitis C drug

US regulators on Friday approved the first new treatment for hepatitis C in more than a decade, a Merck pharmaceutical known as Victrelis, to be taken with the current two-drug regimen.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Simpler, less-expensive detection kit for osteoarthritis, liver disease, and cancer developed

A research team from Chiang Mai University (CMU) have developed a simpler, less-expensive Detection Kit for monitoring Hyaluronan using purified protein from the waste cartilage of a variety of species from the meat processing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0