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Voices of Liver Disease

When country music star Naomi Judd was stuck by a needle as a young nurse, she contracted hepatitis C. Her music career ended when her battle against hepatitis began.

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Liver Disease News

A news summary from around the world about the fight against liver diseases.

Liver donor's family, recipient unite online
Posted on July 6th 2008
In an operation in Pittsburgh in 1984, Amanda's family donated their daughter's liver to Trine, making her one of the nation's youngest patients ever to receive a liver transplant. Years later, the two families have reconnected online and will meet this month at the U.S. Transplant Games in Pittsburgh.

Child with rare disease awaits liver transplant
Posted on July 6th 2008
Five-month-old Rayne Riggleman giggles as she sits on her mother's lap, her blue eyes locked on the shiny skull ring on the hand of her father, who strokes her cheek affectionately. But Rayne's happy nature is in stark contrast to her jaundiced eyes, yellow skin and basketball-sized belly that are symptoms of the rare liver condition biliary atresia she was born with, in which the ducts or tubes that drain bile from the liver are not formed correctly, her pediatrician said.

Fatty Liver Disease May Raise Heart Disease Risk In Overweight, Obese Kids
Posted on July 1st 2008
A fatty liver disease that is not well-known in overweight and obese children may be a precursor of cardiovascular disease, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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