The miracle of childbirth sometimes comes with unintended and unfortunate dangers. One of which is the transfer of the hepatitis virus from an infected mother to her child.  Today,  a vaccination program has been developed which proves to be effective in preventing the transmission of chronic infection to newborn children born to women with hepatitis. […]

You know the old adage,  “a pound of prevention is worth an ounce of cure”.  Prevention is always better than cure. Guided by this mantra, research in the field of liver diseases has widened its scope to include methods of preventative health care.  This research includes studies on metformin, a drug used to treat diabetes.  […]

Free hepatitis or HIV screening? Sounds like a no-brainer!  And yet a number of us end up debating with ourselves whether to go for the free test or remain in the false comfort of not knowing our status. It is exactly this fear and neglect of getting regular tests that costs many people their lives. […]

  Using radio waves; a less invasive treatment alternative to surgery, could give people living with liver cancer more days to look forward to. The new Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) device could be used for patients who are too weak to endure a major medical operation. This is good news especially for patients suffering not […]

Every year more than 6,000 people are diagnosed with biliary tract cancer, making it one of the more rapidly growing forms of primary liver cancer. That is why when researchers at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center in the University of Rochester Medical Center succeeded to make a model of a cancerous biliary tract from […]