News & Updates

The incidence of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among veterans differs according to demographic and clinical characteristics, with the lowest rate seen among Asians, reports a study.

A phase II trial of cabozantinib demonstrates the study drug’s efficacy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) regimens.

Use of ticagrelor compared with clopidogrel contributes to a similar risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and a higher risk of major bleeding in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), reveals a study.

Evaluation and treatment rates of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) remain poor worldwide and differ by sex and race or ethnicity, reports a real-world study.

Findings from the ongoing POLAC project demonstrate that treatment with the pangenotypic regimen comprising glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) for 8 weeks is highly effective against chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in children and adolescents. This regimen also showed a good safety profile.

Treatment with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) results in excellent local tumour control and improves survival among patients with oligometastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with no serious adverse effects, reports a study.

Clinicians may use liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography (TE) to accurately predict decompensation and all-cause mortality in patients with compensated alcohol-related liver disease (ALD), suggests a study.