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The Liver Meeting 2018: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)

November 09 - 13, 2018; San Francisco, California

November 09 - 13, 2018 San Francisco, California

AASLD 2018 Multiple Drugs Advance for Fatty Liver Disease Drugs that act on different pathways in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis are showing progress, but a cure is still elusive, researchers report.
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2018

Conference News

AASLD 2018 Nivolumab Effective in Liver Cancer, Child–Pugh B Status
Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2018
AASLD 2018 In Older Hep B Patients, Carcinoma Surveillance Is Advised
Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2018
AASLD 2018 Hepatitis C-Infected Organs Deemed Safe for Transplant
Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2018
AASLD 2018 Hep C Therapy Can Be Shortened to 8 Weeks, Despite Cirrhosis
Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2018

AASLD 2018 Multiple Drugs Advance for Fatty Liver Disease
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2018
AASLD 2018 Hepatitis C Medications Effective in People Who Inject Drugs
Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2018
AASLD 2018 Obese Transplant Recipients Fare Worse With Fatty Livers
Medscape Medical News, November 11, 2018
AASLD 2018 Fatty Liver Disease in the Spotlight at The Liver Meeting
Medscape Medical News, November 2, 2018

Popular News from AASLD 2017

Diabetes Medications Have Different Effects on the Liver For people with advanced liver fibrosis and type 2 diabetes, metformin is better than sulfonylureas, new research shows
Medscape Medical News, Oct 26, 2017
Primary Care Screening for Fatty Liver Disease Debated The use of transient elastography to screen for liver fibrosis in the primary care setting can be effective, preliminary data suggest, but not everyone is convinced.
Medscape Medical News, Oct 23, 2017
Fatty Liver Common After Direct-Acting Antivirals for Hep C After hepatitis C is cured, patients should be monitored for steatosis and progression to fibrosis, new research indicates.
Medscape Medical News, Oct 30, 2017

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