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 ...

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 ...

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

The newest treatment for AUD, acamprosate (Campral) was developed in France. The FDA approved the drug for abstinence maintenance in detoxified alcoholics 21 years ago, in 2004. Acamprosate restores ...

Larsucosterol sodium is under clinical development by DURECT and currently in Phase II for Alcoholic Hepatitis. According to GlobalData, Phase II drugs for Alcoholic Hepatitis does not have sufficient ...

The chronic infection may lie dormant for years in a latent state, only to manifest with new and typically severe acute complications. Syphilis and hepatitis C are two such examples. Both will ...

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The quantitative effects of alcohol consumption on cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are unknown. This study aimed to establish a dose-dependent model ...

At least a dozen people have been sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM ...

The American Cancer Society’s estimates for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in the United States for 2025 (including both children and adults) are: About 6,100 new cases of ALL (3,450 in males and ...