A 12-week course of oral daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and beclabuvir, with or without ribavirin, achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR) in patient... More »
Fecal microbiota transplant seems to have a significant positive effect on recurring Clostridium difficile infections, according to a systematic revie... More »
VIENNA – As the severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) increases, so does the risk for death and cardiovascular disease, according to ... More »
VIENNA – Patients infected with hepatitis C virus who developed cirrhosis and received statin treatment had significantly lower rates of both death ... More »
pH-impedance testing best predicted response to reflux treatment when patients were off proton pump inhibitors, and abnormal acid exposure time was th... More »
When compared with conventional colonoscopy, capsule colonoscopy had a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 82% for detecting adenomas of at least ... More »
Hospital mortality among patients with cirrhosis fell by 41% in the United States between 2002 and 2010, far outpacing improvements in survival among ... More »
Oxidized low-density lipoprotein prevented hepatitis C virus from entering liver cells and predicted interferon response among patients with chronic H... More »
HOUSTON – A circulating biomarker has the potential to identify metastatic pancreatic cancer and may be able to predict prognosis, investigators sai... More »
VIENNA– In addition to dramatically increasing the risk of liver cancer more than 68-fold, chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection more than doubl... More »
