Topic: East Asia

China clinic blamed for hepatitis C outbreak

More than 150 Chinese villagers, many of them children, may have been infected with hepatitis C by a clinic that reused old needles, state media and local authorities said Wednesday.Nineteen people who received treatment at the privately-run clinic in central China have ...

HK experts identify gene that promotes liver cancer growth

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A recently-discovered gene may be responsible for the proliferation of liver cancer cells, a study in Hong Kong has found, and researchers hope this finding may offer new ideas for therapy.In a paper published in the Journal of ...

Experts find rogue stem cells in liver cancer

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Liver cancers are embedded with a type of super cancer stem cells that make them resistant to chemotherapy, spread to other body parts and stage a comeback even after they are surgically removed, researchers in Hong Kong reported ...
Bisabolane-type sesquiterpenes are a class of biologically active compounds that has antitumour, antifungal, antibacterial, antioxidant and antivenom properties. We investigated the effect of two new highly oxygenated bisabolane-type sesquiterpenes (HOBS) isolated from Cremanthodium discoideum (C. discoideum) on tumour cells. Our results showed ...
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is acrucial worldwide health issue. Nowadays, TCMs are all the same used extensively for thehandling of CHB in China.Thousands of various herbaceous plants have been employed in several TCMformulations for the handling of CHB. The practice of medicine ...
The Results of a Phase II/III trial Presented at the International Liver Cancer Association Fourth Annual Conference. Kowa Company, Ltd. announced today that the results of a Phase II/III trial showed that high dose peretinoin (NIK-333) given daily for up to 96 ...

Sex hormone explains higher liver cancer risk in men

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Male sex hormones may explain why men who suffer from the hepatitis B liver disease are more likely to develop liver cancer than women, researchers in Taiwan have found.In a paper published in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday, ...
Stakeholder Insight: Hepatitis B & C in Asia - China, South Korea, Taiwan and TurkeyChina, Taiwan, South Korea and Turkey represent highly endemic areas for viral Hepatitis. For this report, 180 high-prescribing physicians where surveyed in these countries, providing a breakdown of ...
CLSN) has received SFDA approval to include China sites in its global Phase III clinical trial of a new liver cancer therapy, ThermoDox. In the trial, ThermoDox will be used in addition to radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and compared to RFA alone. Michael ...
64 people infected with hepatitis C from blood transfusions at Chinese hospitalPolice have detained the director of a Chinese hospital where at least 64 people were infected with the potentially deadly liver disease hepatitis C after receiving transfusions from blood collected illegally, ...
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