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The Liver Meeting 2019: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)

November 08 - 12, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts

November 08 - 12, 2019 Boston, Massachusetts

AASLD 2019 Liver Safety Concerns Over Opioid-like Supplement Kratom With physicians increasingly reluctant to prescribe opioids, people are turning to dietary supplements, but not without consequences, researchers warn.
Medscape Medical News, November 8, 2019

Conference News

AASLD 2019 Inappropriate Prescriptions Common in Cirrhosis
Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2019
AASLD 2019 Mortality Rate for Chronic Liver Disease Underestimated
Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2019
AASLD 2019 Cirrhosis Patients Skimp on Cancer Screening Because of Cost
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2019

AASLD 2019 CRISPR Used to Silence Crucial Hepatitis B Gene
Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2019
AASLD 2019 Novel Procedure May Help Improve Metabolic Disease
Medscape Medical News, November 11, 2019
AASLD 2019 Liver Safety Concerns Over Opioid-like Supplement Kratom
Medscape Medical News, November 8, 2019

Popular News From 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, Nov 13, 2018
Hep C Therapy Can Be Shortened to 8 Weeks, Despite Cirrhosis In treatment-naïve patients with compensated cirrhosis, the duration of hepatitis C medication can be shortened in most cases, results from the EXPEDITION-8 trial show.
Medscape Medical News, Nov 14, 2018
In Older Hep B Patients, Carcinoma Surveillance Is Advised Patients older than 50 years should still be screened for hepatocellular carcinoma after the 5 years of therapy for chronic hepatitis B, new research shows.
Medscape Medical News, Nov 15, 2018

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