Anti-cancer drug offers potential alternative to transplant for patients with liver failure, study finds
(WorldNews Europe)

Press release/ Published: 15 August 2018 Patients suffering sudden liver failure could in the future benefit from a new treatment that could reduce the need for transplants, research published today shows. Acute Liver Failure occurs when a healthy liver is so seriously damaged it can no longer regrow and recover, leaving patients in urgent need of transplant. The liver helps support almost every other organ, by removing toxins, as well as making and storing the proteins and energy sources the body requires. Often the damaged liver can regrow and recover on its own, but when it suffers...