HealthWell Foundation opens fund for MASH patients in US
The HealthWell Foundation, a charity that helps people who can’t afford to pay their medical bills, has started a new fund to support those…
The HealthWell Foundation, a charity that helps people who can’t afford to pay their medical bills, has started a new fund to support those…
Two scores calculated from blood biomarkers can accurately discriminate between pregnant women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and those without, and predict ICP-associated…
A toddler boy with cirrhosis, or permanent liver scarring, due to Alagille syndrome developed a hepatoblastoma, a type of liver cancer that typically occurs…
A Phase 2a clinical trial testing Kezar Life Sciences’ investigational therapy zetomipzomib in adults with autoimmune hepatitis who did not respond well to standard…
Researchers in China have identified five new mutations in the NR1H4 gene in three boys with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 5 (PFIC5) and…
Combining ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) with elafibranor, an experimental oral therapy for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), may be the best treatment combination at lessening signs…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to LB-P8, LISCure Biosciences’ experimental live bacterium product that is headed toward…
Brain scans have shown children with neonatal cholestasis tend to have brain abnormalities, a review study found. Bleeding was the most common, especially in…
Treatment with an oral medication called sodium 4-phenylbutyrate — approved to treat diseases in which the body fails to remove a waste called ammonia…
Bortezomib, an anticancer medication, prevented a recurrence of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 2 (PFIC2) after a liver transplant by helping a young girl…