By Isabella Cueto Nov. 27, 2023 A rusty lead water pipe on the road — coverage from STATSETH WENIG/AP Nearly a decade on, the Flint water crisis still looms large in the minds of environmental toxin researchers. It was — and continues to be — evidence that not all communities in the United States are...
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SEATTLE, Wash. – A boom in alcohol sales during the pandemic appears to have had dire consequences for some as hospital admissions for alcohol-related hepatitis, a life-threatening liver inflammation, increased dramatically, according to a study of national hospitalization data. Researchers found increasing cases of the alcohol-related liver illness from 2016 through 2020,...
by Radiological Society of North America Credit: CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 infection is associated with increased liver stiffness, a sign of possible long-term liver injury, according to the results of a new study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). “Our study is part of emerging evidence...
by Asociacion RUVID Fig. 1 Schematic workflow of data analysis and modeling strategy. Credit: DOI: 10.1007/s00204-021-03114-z Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an adverse reaction to ingesting a drug, which can appear both in developmental stages, in their clinical use and even after being approved as a drug. It is the main cause of acute liver failure...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS IMAGE: IN RESEARCH PUBLISHED ONLINE FEB. 19 IN THE JOURNAL SCIENCE ADVANCES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CHEMIST DR. JIE ZHENG AND HIS COLLEAGUES SHOW HOW GOLD NANOPARTICLES COULD PLAY A KEY ROLE IN A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST TO DETECT ACUTE LIVE CANCER EARLIER THAN CURRENT METHODS. FOUR SAMPLES OF...
A Case ReportAbbas F. Hlaihel; Mudher Z. H. Al-Khairalla DISCLOSURES J Med Case Reports. 2019;13(311) Abstract and IntroductionAbstractBackground: Levothyroxine is a synthetic thyroxine and is the treatment of choice for hypothyroidism. It is a prohormone with minimal intrinsic activity. The drug is de-iodinated in peripheral tissue to form triiodothyronine, which is the active thyroid hormone....
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC./GENETIC ENGINEERING NEWS New Rochelle, NY, December 9, 2019–Researchers demonstrated that Lactobacillus rhamnosus can dose-dependently reestablish a balanced intestinal microbiome and counter the liver-damaging effects of alcohol consumption in mice to reverse the results of chronic alcohol-induced liver injury. The design, results, and implications of this new study are published in Journal...
A new study has revealed that bile duct cells can switch to become normal liver cells to help repair the liver after severe damage. Understanding how this back-up system is controlled could pave the way for new liver therapies, say the scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University...
