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British Liver Trust announces new CEO
The British Liver Trust, the UK’s leading liver health charity for adults, has today announced Pamela Healy …
Love Your Liver in the Media
Our Love Your Liver campaign has helped highlight the liver disease epidemic in the UK and has encouraged …
Hepatitis C deaths fall by 16 per cent between 2015 and 2017
Deaths from serious hepatitis C related liver disease fell by 16.1% between 2015 and 2017 according to …
New drug approved by the SMC for patients in Scotland with difficult to treat liver cancer
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has recommended the use of Lenvima® (lenvatinib) within NHS Scotland as a …
Research suggests the reason more men get diagnosed with liver cancer
Researchers in Spain have discovered that a hormone secreted by fat cells that is present at higher …
SIRT approved for use in NHS in England for people with advanced bowel cancer that has spread to liver
NHS England have announced that selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) will be available on the NHS in …
Funding awarded to 23 projects to help those affected by alcohol
Local authorities across the country will use £6 million funding to increase access to alcohol treatments, with …
Publication to tackle the lack of support and limited understanding of ‘end of life care’ in liver disease
The UK’s leading liver charity, the British Liver Trust, has today launched a new publication titled ‘Thinking …
Love Your Liver roadshow aims to curb liver disease epidemic in London
London is in the grip of an epidemic of liver disease, a silent killer that leads to …
Liver Nurse of the Year Award 2019
Congratulations to the Hepatology nursing team at the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust who have won this …