UK - Liver disease tackled with dedicated unit at Imperial College London

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Liver

disease death rates are rising in the UK, in

contrast to other common diseases such as heart disease and cancer, and the new

Hesketh Hepatology Clinical Research Facility

aims to provide care and develop new therapies to reverse this trend.

The

unit will accommodate fifty researchers, doctors and nurses from Imperial

College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, working together to

help liver patients.

In

addition to providing the best possible care for thousands of patients, staff

at the unit aim to better understand liver disease. All

of the patients will be offered the opportunity to take part in the

unit’s clinical research programmes and some

will be able to enrol in its clinical trials. These will address the four main causes of liver disease -

alcohol, fatty liver disease and chronic hepatitis B and C - as well as liver

cell and bile duct cancers.

Researchers

at the unit will wage a war on liver disease on a number of fronts…..

Full

Article here -

http://health.126xiaoshuo.com/2008/12/liver-disease-tackled-with-dedicated-unit-at-imperial-college-london/

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