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Raising awareness of liver disease in parliament
2021 will mark a pivotal year for the health landscape as the NHS continues to grapple with …
“People know exactly how you’re feeling”: How virtual support groups have been a lifeline for liver patients
Lianne (pictured) is a Liver Transplant Social Worker at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. She explains how the …
New technology to help identify those at high risk from Covid-19
New technology has been introduced in England to help clinicians identify for the first time, a new …
Routine blood tests could be key to stopping the silent killer of liver disease
New research by Professor Nick Sheron of the Foundation for Liver Research and supported by the British …
Alcohol addiction and liver disease storyline in Coronation Street
Fans of Coronation Street will know that there is a storyline involving Peter Barlow, who has alcohol-related …
Duty to Recover: taking action to reduce alcohol harm
As part of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, the British Liver Trust is supporting the Duty To …
Symptom awareness of deadliest cancers is as low as 4% in the UK
New data released by the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce on World Cancer Day shows that symptoms awareness …
Alcohol deaths hit record high during pandemic
The number of people dying from alcohol-related causes reached a new high in 2020, according to figures …
Preventing non-communicable diseases in Wales
The British Liver Trust has joined forces with Wales’s other leading Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) charities to call …
Auto-immune hepatitis and Covid-19
A recent study by researchers at Oxford University Hospitals into the effects of the Covid-19 virus on …