Can AI work out the best dose of immunosuppressants after a liver transplant?
Machine learning is a type of AI. It is a developing and exciting tool which can be useful for making predictions. But can it be used to help guide the correct dose of medicines? For example, the immunosuppressant tacrolimus, which is used after liver transplants. A...
Elafibranor approved by NICE for primary biliary cholangitis
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has today recommended elafibranor as a second-line treatment for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). The British Liver Trust collated insight from patients and submitted evidence to NICE as part of the...
Love Your Liver roadshow welcomed to Stormont by Northern Ireland’s MLAs
The Love Your Liver roadshow visited Stormont in September, the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly on a beautiful sunny day in September to highlight our call for increased awareness and stronger action on prevention, and to improve measures for earlier detection....
Latest data reinforces calls for extension of opt-out hepatitis B testing and highlights need to resolve inequalities
New data presented today at the British Association for the Study of the Liver Annual Meeting in Harrogate has added weight to calls from the British Liver Trust for opt out blood testing to be made routinely available in all emergency departments across the UK. The...