Treatment with an oral medication called sodium 4-phenylbutyrate — approved to treat diseases in which the body fails to remove a waste called ammonia…
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FATTY LIVER DISEASE
NewsSmall amounts of alcohol deemed OK in early steatotic liver disease
Drinking a small amount of alcohol each day did not raise the mortality risk among people in the early stages of steatotic liver disease…
ALAGILLE SYNDROME
NewsLivmarli’s long-term benefits in Alagille extend beyond itch: Study
Up to six years of treatment with Livmarli (maralixibat), which is approved for reducing itch, or pruritus, in Alagille syndrome, prolonged survival and…
A global outbreak of severe hepatitis in children just after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted could have been caused by infections with multiple viruses at…
Daily treatment with seladelpar, CymaBay Therapeutics’ investigational oral candidate for people with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), was shown to normalize liver biomarkers and…
CHOLESTASIS
NewsProbiotics may help women with ICP, but risks not yet known
Women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) show lesser diversity across their gut bacteria than do other pregnant women, a study reports. Its findings…
FATTY LIVER DISEASE
NewsSurvodutide lowers severe fatty liver disease severity in Phase 2 trial
Weekly injections under the skin of the experimental therapy survodutide significantly reduces the severity of metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a severe form of fatty…
BILIARY ATRESIA
NewsGut microbiota may be noninvasive diagnostic tool in biliary atresia
The composition of microbes is altered in the intestines of infants with biliary atresia, a type of liver disease that affects the bile ducts,…
While highly effective treatments for hepatitis C are available worldwide, many people — especially those living in poorer countries — are not able to access…
Chemomab Therapeutics has been awarded patents in Brazil and Israel covering CM-101, the company’s experimental therapy that’s currently being tested in a Phase…
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