Excessive alcohol use can harm the body in many ways, including an increase in the risk of various cancers. It damages liver ...

Excessive alcohol use can harm the body in many ways, including an increase in the risk of various cancers. It damages liver ...

DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced the publication of a peer-reviewed article on the AHFIRM trial data in NEJM ...

The flavonoid silymarin and one of its structural components, silibinin, are substances with documented hepatoprotective properties. Their mechanisms of action are still poorly understood.

I wasn't ill apart from some tiredness.” After being on the organ donor waiting list for four months, Mandy was matched with ...

Viral hepatitis is as much a public health problem in the UT as is tuberculosis. Hepatitis means “inflammation of the liver” ...

is a syndrome characterised by acute decompensation of chronic liver disease associated with organ failures and high short-term mortality. Alcohol and chronic viral hepatitis are the most common ...

Wild college parties have long been romanticized in Hollywood movies, but how closely does real life mirror art?

For patients with hepatitis B virus, alcohol is associated with dose-dependent increased risks for cirrhosis and ...

A new study from the University of Chicago Medicine reveals that people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depression experience high levels of stimulation and pleasure when intoxicated, similar to ...

Overuse of alcohol is a major cause of acute and chronic pancreatitis in both developed and developing countries. The disease usually presents as an acute episode of pancreatitis and progresses ...