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Mother to child transmission of Hepatitis B eliminated in England
Hepatitis B transmission from mothers to babies has been eliminated in England, thanks to universal screening and targeted infant immunisation.
An estimated 206,000 people in England live with chronic hepatitis B, a viral infection ...
NHS Blood and Transplant are seeking the views of patients on living donor liver transplantation
Living donor liver transplantation emerged across the world in the early 1990s in response to the shortfall in available donor organs for patients in need of a liver transplantation. Since 1998, paediatric centres in the UK have been ...
MPs call for urgent action to tackle surging deaths caused by late diagnosis of liver disease
On Tuesday 17th January, the British Liver Trust and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Liver Disease and Liver Cancer invited MPs from across 4 nations to attend an awareness raising event on the liver disease epidemic in the ...
Support our call for opt-out testing of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in more emergency departments
The British Liver Trust has joined with other charities leading in the fight against Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV to call on the government to fund testing for blood-borne viruses in emergency departments across England.
In an ...
Welsh Parliament hold first ever debate on liver disease and liver cancer public health emergency
On Wednesday, the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) held the first ever debate on the liver disease and liver cancer crisis in Wales to mark the Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day and Love Your Liver month.
Coming two months ...
Liver cancer deaths are surging due to late diagnosis of the less survivable cancers
The British Liver Trust marked the Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day by calling for urgent action from parliamentarians in Westminster, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd to tackle delays in diagnosis for deadly cancers ...
Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day – calling for action to improve early diagnosis
Today (January 11th) is National Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day, which aims to highlight the critical importance of early diagnosis in improving survival and quality of life for people diagnosed with less survivable cancers ...
Liver disease crisis in Wales to come under the spotlight at Senedd Cymru
Senedd Members will today (11th January) debate the urgent action required to curb the alarming rise in liver disease deaths in Wales, which have surged by 23% in just two years.
Coming two months after the Welsh government published ...
National Obesity Awareness Week: Fat and the liver
The British Liver Trust is proud to support National Obesity Awareness Week.
The week aims to raise vital awareness of how excess weight can increase health risks, what we can do to prevent it, and how we can tackle it if we are ...
NHS industrial action (strikes)
Some NHS staff in England and Wales will be on strike at points in December. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are striking on 15 and 20 December 2022, members of the GMB, Unite and Unison (ambulance staff) are striking on ...
New report points to avoidable and unnecessary alcohol related liver disease deaths
Publication today in the Lancet ‘Deaths from alcohol-related liver disease: an escalating tragedy’ highlights the need for urgent action to reduce unnecessary and avoidable deaths from alcohol-related liver disease.
The Lancet ...
Research shows fatty liver disease may endanger brain health
In a study examining the potential link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and brain dysfunction, scientists at the Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology, affiliated to King’s College London and the University of ...
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