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Two faces of our love affair with alcohol
Published July 4, 2009, 3:20 pm, Sunday Herald
chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland and one of the leaders of the campaign to curb our national over-consumption of drink, points to a graph showing the surge in Scotland in death rates from liver cirrhosis in the past 50 years. "The increase is much more marked than in the rest of the world.
Hepatitis B Virus Mutations May Predict Risk Of Liver Cancer
Published July 4, 2009, 3:10 am, Medical News Today
Certain mutations in the DNA of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) are associated with the development of liver cancer and may help predict which patients with HBV infections are at increased risk of the disease, according to a large meta-analysis in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published online July 2.
Novel Role Of Gene May Provide Key To Treating Liver And Neurodegenerative Diseases
Published July 4, 2009, 3:10 am, Medical News Today
Scientists at Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have made a novel discovery about how the gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule" (FAIM), protects both immune and liver cells from apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Their research is published in the current journal Cell Death and Differentiation. The scientists, Jianxin Huo, Ph.D., and Shengli Xu, Ph.D.
Hepatitis B virus mutations may help predict liver cancer risk
Published July 3, 2009, 10:09 pm, New Kerala
Washington, July 3 : Scientists from Second Military Medical University in Shanghai have revealed that mutations in the DNA of hepatitis B virus (HBV) might help predict which patients are at increased risk of developing liver cancer, HBV infection is a known cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer.
Hospital Tech May Have Exposed Thousands To Hep C
Published July 3, 2009, 8:47 pm, KDKA Pittsburgh
A scrub tech at Rose Medical Center is accused of switching narcotic-filled syringes in operating rooms with dirty saline-filled syringes. Thousands of patients may be at risk for exposure to Hepatitis C.
CNN - Health Tech May Have Exposed Many To Hepatitis
Published July 3, 2009, 8:26 pm, WSB-TV 2 Atlanta
A Former Hospital Employee May Have Exposed Hundreds Or Thousands Of Surgical Patients To Hepatitis C When She Replaced Clean Needles Filled With The Powerful Painkiller Fentanyl With Her Own Dirty Needles Filled With Saline Solution.
Springs surgery tech suspected of exposing 5,700 to hepatitis C
Published July 3, 2009, 6:39 pm, Colorado Springs Gazette
Federal officials Thursday warned that about 5,700 surgery patients, including 1,000 at a Colorado Springs surgery center, are at risk of having been infected by an operating room technician with hepatitis C.
Tech May Have Exposed Thousands to Hep C
Published July 3, 2009, 6:21 pm, CBS News
Woman Faces Criminal Charges for Swapping Her Own Dirty Syringes for Ones With Narcotic
Questions mount about Hepatitis C as more details are released
Published July 3, 2009, 5:28 pm, KOAA-TV Colorado Springs - Pueblo
Thousands across the state may have been exposed to hepatitis c through alleged needle swapping by surgical tech Kristen Parker. Dr. Donna Lanacone says out of all three types of hepatitis, C is by far the most serious and dangerous.
Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis
Published July 3, 2009, 3:18 pm, CNN
A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.
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