Herb-Induced Liver Injuries in Developing Nations: An Update

RUCAM in Drug and Herb Induced Liver Injury: The Update

RUCAM (Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method) or its previous synonym CIOMS (Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences) is a well established tool in common use to quantitatively assess causality in cases of suspected drug induced liver injury (DILI) and herb induced liver injury (HILI). Historical background and the original work confirm the use of RUCAM as single term fo...

An approach to drug-induced liver injuries

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a term increasingly being used by most clinicians and is synonymous with drug-induced hepatotoxicity. A succinct definition of a DILI is ‘a liver injury induced by a drug or herbal medicine resulting in liver test abnormalities or liver dysfunction with a reasonable exclusion of other potential aetiologies’.1 DILIs are a recognised and clinically significant ...

liver disease in cystic fibrosis: an update

context cystic fibrosis (cf) is the most widespread autosomal recessive genetic disorder that limits life expectation amongst the caucasian population. as the median survival has increased related to early multidisciplinary intervention, other manifestations of cf have emergedespecially for the broad spectrum of hepatobiliary involvement. the present study reviews the existing literature on liv...

Consumption in Developing Nations

An Inexpensive Scheffler Reflector for Developing Nations