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Cotadutide, an experimental therapy that alters glucose and lipid metabolism, led to weight loss and improvements in metabolic, cardiovascular and liver fibrosis biomarkers in overweight people with diabetes and fatty liver disease, but ...

Combinations of experimental drugs for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) failed to meet a study's primary endpoint by significantly improving liver fibrosis without worsening NASH, but one combination in particular – firsocostat plus ...

Testing and treatment for hepatitis C in gay and bisexual men with HIV in Melbourne reduced the prevalence of the infection by 83% between 2012 and 2019, Australian researchers report ...

Around one in three people with HIV and hepatitis B had fatty liver disease and one in ten had liver damage, US researchers from the Hepatitis B Research Network report in Clinical ...

Almost half of people with HIV with unexplained liver enzyme elevations or other abnormal liver markers had non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and 39 of 116 had stage F3 or F4 fibrosis, and advanced ...

Three new methods using readily available clinical parameters can help predict who will develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after achieving sustained virological response to hepatitis C treatment, according to studies presented at the recent 2020 Digital ...

People with advanced liver cirrhosis are more likely to develop severe COVID-19 complications and to die from it, but those who have received liver transplants do not appear to be at greater ...

Aldafermin significantly reduced liver fat content and liver damage in a phase 2 study of a 24-week treatment course, Dr Stephen Harrison, Visiting Professor of Hepatology at the University of Oxford, told ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects one in four people in the general population in Europe and just over one in twenty people have advanced liver fibrosis, a meta-analysis of 33 studies from ...

Discontinuation of long-term nucleoside/nucleotide antiviral treatment for hepatitis B can allow some people to achieve a cure, according to a pair of presentations last week at the 2020 Digital International Liver Congress. This may happen ...