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Consumer Alert: Miracle Mineral Supplement aka MMS
This product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm. Swallowing doses of this bleach,...
Profiling and assumed herb-induced liver toxicity
Alternative explanations are common in about 47% of suspected drug-induced liver injury. Researchers in Germany raised the question of whether...
Too fat to live in New Zealand
If campaigns to promote more healthful eating are ineffective, how else might society address the obesity epidemic? MailOnline reports that...
Contaminated and adulterated herbals
Prof. Ernst and colleagues reviewed the evidence and they aren’t sanguine.
Milk thistle fails in study of Hep C treatment
Silymarin (Silybium marianum), an extract of milk thistle, is often used to treat chronic liver disease. Researchers with the Silymarin...
No benefit from milk thistle to treat hepatitis C
The botanical extract silymarin (milk thistle,) has anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties and is used by patients with chronic liver...
Final word on the statin-grapefruit juice interaction?
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center, in Boston, are the first to evaluate changes in...
Consumer Alert: Aromatase inhibitors in dietary supplements
Aromatase inhibitors are a class of drugs used to treat breast cancer and ovarian cancer in postmenopausal women. Now, the...
Low vitamin D levels lower the response to treatment of hepatitis C
Researchers from Italy report that low vitamin D is linked to severe fibrosis and a poor response to interferon treatment.
Is there a role for milk thistle treatment of liver toxicity in leukemia?
Milk thistle is often used to treat chemotherapy-associated liver toxicity. Researchers from the US studied it in childhood acute lymphoblastic...
Growing evidence supports garlic to treat hepatopulmonary syndrome
It occurs in up to 20% of patients with cirrhosis of the liver and should be considered in anyone who...
Re-evaluating the risk of liver toxicity from black cohosh
Researchers from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, in Hanau, Germany, reviewed the evidence and believe the risk is less...
Imatinib liver toxicity associated with ginseng
This is the first reported case of a patient taking imatinib (Gleevec), which is used to treat certain cancers, who...
Consumer Alert: Hydroxycut
Do you find that you’re not getting the weight loss results you want from diet and exercise alone? If you...
Two multivitamin preparations are ineffective for treating biliary atresia
Biliary atresia is a rare disease of infants in which the flow of bile from the liver to the intestine...
Consumer Alert: Sports performance supplements
 The FDA warns against using products advertised as alternatives to anabolic steroids for increasing muscle mass and strength. These products...
Might exercise benefit diabetics with fatty liver?
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland believe this is the first study of its kind....
“Aqueous” extracts of kava to treat depression and anxiety
Piper methysticum (kava) has been withdrawn for sale in several countries due to concerns over liver toxicity. The WHO recently...
The changing view of black cohosh and liver toxicity
 This is the third review in the past year that has come to the same conclusion. This time, researchers from...
Leisure activity and nonalcoholic fatty liver
 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a fatty inflammation of the liver that is not due to excessive alcohol use....