ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES AND THE LIVER

The Alternative Medicine Connection has a database of alternative health-care practitioners that you can search by State. Their URL is: http://arxc.com/arxchome.htm

Want to know if a particular herb or dietary supplement is hepatoxic? Take a look at: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/aems.html

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Trial Tackling Hepatitis C With New Drug
By enrolling Hepatitis C patients for whom treatment with combination therapy is not advised, Conatus Pharmaceuticals is testing a unique compound that inhibits the activity of matrix metalloproteinases....

Apple CEO Gets Hotly Debated Liver Transplant
Ever since a Tennessee hospital disclosed that an internationally known businessman - Steve Jobs - recently received a liver transplant there, controversy has swirled around transplantation fairness....

Modern and Traditional Research Expands Knowledge of Liver Disease
At 2009's largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery (Digestive Disease Week), substantial progress for those with liver disease, including chronic Hepatitis C, was presented....