That is about to change, with $6 million awarded to National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) senior consultant surgeon Pierce Chow, who over the next five years will research liver cancer screening ...

Nurses conduct a “Fibroscan”, which uses ultrasound to detect scarring to ... with professionals on hand to talk you through their findings and offer advice, guidance and tips to keep your ...

Participants were followed to estimate the rates of hepatitis B e (HBeAg ... However, their recommendations are based on the findings from Asia, Europe and North America since there have been no ...

Results: Our findings indicate a significant ... diseases including viral hepatitis or autoimmune hepatitis; (3) Alcohol consumption below 20 g/day. The percutaneous liver biopsy was performed under ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens ...

ETH Zurich researchers have investigated how tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ...

However, only a qualified medical professional can interpret the findings of these scans. A 2020 review found that while ultrasound has a high degree of accuracy overall for diagnosing BCS ...

A new study has found that reduced glutathione, when combined with entecavir, significantly improves liver function, reduces fibrosis, and enhances HBV-DNA clearance in chronic hepatitis B patients.

To tackle the ongoing high burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among people who inject drugs (PWID), WHO has set a specific incidence target among PWID of no more than two new infections per ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...

Hepatitis is a medical condition defined by inflammation of the liver. It can be caused by infection of the liver by hepatitis viruses (hepatitis B, hepatitis C and viral hepatitis) or is of ...