Hep C Treatment - Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease -- New Insight Into a Major Cause of

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease -- New Insight Into a Major Cause of
Medscape News - Research presented during this year's meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) addressed important advances in our understanding of the hepatic consequences of obesity -- nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a

Mothers pass hepatitis C more often to infant girls
Reuters UK - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a large European study suggest that mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) occurs significantly more often among girls than among boys. The study findings, based on 1,787 HCV-infected

Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome after
BioMed Central - This study used data from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), using standard analysis files (SAF's) as of May 2000. The USRDS, indirectly mandated by federal law, incorporates baseline and follow-up demographic and clinical data on all

China's survivors speak out on Japan
San Francisco Gate - Teenager Kao-Hwa Sung watched helplessly as Japanese soldiers beat her father repeatedly with a metal rod, demanding to know where to find students supporting the rebels in Shanghai. "I was so angry," Sung, 74, said in Mandarin, tears welling and her

Adverse effects of, and diseases transmitted by blood transfusion
Manila Bulleting Online - What does the term blood product mean? What are the possible adverse effects and diseases transmitted by blood transfusion? A friend of mine died of cirrhosis of the liver because he received blood that was contaminated with hepatitis B virus when he

FDA gives Fast Track status to Vertex s Hepatitis C treatment
Mass High Tech - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Fast Track designation to VX-950, an investigational oral hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment being developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. According to Vertex officials, the FDA granted the Fast Track