by Steven Reinberg Americans may have a collective drinking problem, made worse by the obesity epidemic, new research suggests. The new study found that deaths from alcoholic cirrhosis have more than tripled in 20 years. In 1999, alcoholic cirrhosis—an advanced form of alcohol-related liver disease—killed just over 6,000 Americans (a rate of 3 per 100,000). By 2019,...
by Medical University of South Carolina Dr. Don Rockey is the director of the Digestive Disease Research Core Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina A recent study at the Medical University of South Carolina’s (MUSC) Digestive Disease Research Core Center (DDRCC) provides insight into why...
by Dominic Glasgow, University of Dundee A new way of detecting liver disease decades before it can become fatal has been developed by a team of scientists at the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside. It comes as clinicians warn of a “ticking time bomb” of alcohol-related and obesity-related liver diseases. Liver disease, which is notoriously asymptomatic, has become...
Study finds routine oral care alters gut bacteria and reduces inflammation and cognitive problems AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY Rockville, Md. (August 29, 2018)–Routine oral care to treat gum disease (periodontitis) may play a role in reducing inflammation and toxins in the blood (endotoxemia) and improving cognitive function in people with liver cirrhosis. The study is published...
Weill Cornell Medicine Imaging-guided catheter-directed infusion of endothelial cell therapy. A new therapy that uses blood-vessel-lining cells to regenerate damaged tissue has the potential to treat liver cirrhosis, Weill Cornell Medicine scientists demonstrate in new research. The small-scale animal study, published in the October issue of Radiology, was a test of the basic feasibility of...
