Bylvay (odevixibat), an oral medication used to treat cholestatic pruritus — severe itching that results from a buildup of bile…
Articles by Margarida Maia, PhD
Adding vitamin D to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) treatment is superior to UDCA alone at reducing symptoms, liver damage markers, and…
About 74,000 babies are born each year with the virus that causes hepatitis C, and more than 23,000 of…
Genetic testing can help doctors find the cause of neonatal cholestasis more quickly, so children can receive more targeted…
Bylvay (odevixibat) eased pruritus — itching — during episodes of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) type 1 caused by…
Throughout July, the nonprofit Biliary Atresia Research & Education (BARE) is holding its Live and Let Live(r) fundraising campaign…
BiTS, an antibody co-developed by researchers at New York University (NYU) to tame overactive immune T-cells, reduced inflammation and liver…
An imbalance in the blood between long-chain and very long-chain ceramides — fatty molecules that help fine-tune the body’s inflammatory…
About 40 in every 100,000 U.S. adults have primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), with its frequency, when adjusted to population…
Researchers have developed a database of all ABCB11 mutations known to cause progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 2 (PFIC2)…