Hepatology
From the Journals
Liver cancer risk persists after direct-acting antiviral treatment for HCV
“Even with that decline in risk up to 7 years after eradication of hepatitis C with direct-acting antivirals, the risk is still high enough to...
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Link between pediatric hepatitis and adenovirus 41 still unclear
Although there is a high adenovirus positivity rate amongst these cases, there is not enough evidence yet to say adenovirus 41 is a new cause of...
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Finding HBV ‘cure’ may mean going ‘back to the drawing board’
Development of new HBV drugs looks more complicated than initially expected, and it’s time to refine and refocus goals, according to one...
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Statins in NAFLD: Taking a closer look at benefits
Statins could have multiple benefits in NAFLD, but there has been little insight into how they may be exerting such effects.
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Acute hepatitis cases in children show declining trend; adenovirus, COVID-19 remain key leads
Adenovirus remains the most commonly detected virus in acute hepatitis in children, found in 53% of cases overall.
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Fatty liver disease drives rise in liver cancer deaths
“The burden of this disease [NAFLD] is going up, and it will be the most important disease of the next decade or so.”
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CDC releases new details on mysterious hepatitis in children
The findings suggest that there may be many different causes behind these severe hepatitis cases, the authors wrote, and it is estimated that...
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Pediatric hepatitis has not increased during pandemic: CDC
Neither pediatric hepatitis nor adenovirus type 40/41 are reportable conditions in the United States.
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Race-, ethnicity-based clinical guidelines miss the mark: Study
“We just look at [our patients] and we say, ‘Their skin color looks black, and therefore we’re going to apply a different equation to them.’ ”
From the Journals
Study shows link between dairy consumption and cancer
No association was found between dairy products and colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, or any other site-specific cancer.
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First fatty liver guidelines for endocrinology, primary care
Endocrinologists and primary care docs “need to be the ones who are diagnosing and managing [non-alcoholic fatty liver disease] because there just...