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Alcohol-Related Liver Disease clinic gives patient new hope

Diagnosed with alcohol-related liver cirrhosis, Jennifer Strohpaul decided it was time for a fresh start with the University of Michigan Health Alcohol Related Liver Disease Clinic. Receiving her liver transplant has inspired her to go back to school for her Master’s of Social Work to help patients like herself.
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Understanding esophageal cancer

In this Q&A, a Michigan Medicine doctor talks about esophageal cancer, its signs and risk factors to know.
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Rare infant triplet overcomes one-in-a-million type of liver cancer

Josephine “JoJo” Wells, a spontaneous triplet, was diagnosed with rare hepatoblastoma at nine months old and treated with surgery and chemotherapy.
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News Release

Xu named among Time magazine’s most influential in health

U-M Health Rogel Cancer Center research member Zhen Xu, Ph.D., was selected to Time magazine’s TIME100 Health.
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Managing cirrhosis pain without drugs

Michigan Medicine hepatologists are preparing a year-long study looking at the techniques cirrhosis patients can use at home to relieve chronic pain without medication.
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Health Lab Podcast

Protecting newborns from hepatitis B

Medical experts are urging continued hepatitis B vaccine birth doses for newborns. This recommendation is based on decades of data showing that policies put in place for hepatitis B vaccines that have long been the status quo are estimated to have prevented one million hospitalizations and 90,000 deaths.