In Rwanda, cancer remains a leading health challenge, with breast, cervical, and prostate cancers being among the most prevalent. According to Dr. Theoneste Maniragaba, the Director of the Cancer ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with hepatitis B virus, alcohol is associated with dose-dependent ...

A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver complications ...

Hepatitis B and C can be acute or chronic ... Cancers can also occur in the bile ducts outside the liver. Liver Biopsy A needle is inserted into the abdomen and is used to take a small sample of liver ...

Hepatitis B (sometimes referred to as hep B) is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It typically causes symptoms like stomach pain, dark urine, fatigue, fever, jaundice (yellowing ...

A review of the literature reveals that an enlarged and tender liver is an essential finding in virus hepatitis and in the ... components of the vitamin B complex and vitamin K in therapeutic ...

Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes liver inflammation. It’s a serious condition that needs to be treated to avoid outcomes such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus is ...

George, 36, has since told The Sun on Sunday that he will be given a biopsy to try and get to the root of the problem. “This could be a sign of what caused my heart problems,” he said of the ...

NEW YORK – Tune Therapeutics on Sunday said it has raised more than $175 million in a Series B funding round, which it will use to support its epigenome-editing hepatitis B program and advance its ...

More than 250 million people worldwide are estimated to have chronic hepatitis B infections, which can cause liver failure and cancer. Researchers see altering gene expression via epigenetic editing ...

Liver biopsy samples are usually taken with a needle ... to the most frequent hepatotropic viruses, in other words, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). As we have learned from ...

An ideal assessment would have been to follow a large representative sample of patients prospectively from infection to death, with repeated liver ... hepatitis) are very rare compared with ...