Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feast of my liver oh Sun, torn...
Doctors at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a new test which they say will "significantly improve" their ability to identify donor blood carrying hepatitis B, a severe viral infection of the liver...
Hepatitis B, also known as scrum hepatitis, usually strikes adults, can cause cirrhosis, and is more severe than hepatitis A. Chronic carriers of the virus have a greater than normal chance of developing liver disease and cancer of the liver...
Although transplants often serve as a last resort in treating liver diseases, the BWH doctor said that the new test is unlikely to reduce the number of transplants performed, because hepatitis B infections are "a relative contraindication to transplants...
...caused liver cancer in laboratory rats, but only in large amounts. Its real effects on humans have yet to be tested...