Wanna know a fantastic website to check out if you have been diagnosed with hepatotoxicity? GREAT!! U.S. Food and Drug Administration has an up-to-date, informative page explaining the definition as well as having resources to click on for further information reguarding involved research, networking, etc. Meetings are held for more knowledge of hepatotoxicity and this site has listed them all from 2001-2008 (EXCEPT 2002). INTERESTED?? Go check out the site www.fda.gov/cder/livertox/default.htm!
We will wait :)
OK :) now another helpful site is Drug-Induced Liver InjuryNetwork (DILIN)
http://dilin.dcri.duke.edu/
What makes this site interesting? Good, I am glad you asked! Research is the answer... DILIN is in the process of two studies. If your goal is networking to find out others experiencing similar situations check out Retrospective Study on their site. This particular experiement lists medications and names of diagnosed people. The other study, Prospective Study, has volunteers recently experiencing an adverse liver reaction and taking medication or herbs being followed to understand the why and how. And if that is not enough, breaking news about comparable topics are posted and also, clinical sites and locations too.
WANNA SECOND OPINION??
check out this upcoming workshop Dec 2008 http://www3.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/diliworkshop2008/
Another organization:
AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION (ALF) http://www.liverfoundation.org/
1-888-4HEP-USA (443-4872) or 1-800-GO-LIVER(465-4837)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Have DILT ?.........
[drug-induced liver toxicity}
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3 comments:
My friends dad has recently been diagnosed with DILT. It has been difficult mainly because I did not understand much about it and neither did she. After reading this post and the website you listed I now know more about DILT. It was really helpful.
I always thought that Tylenol was a very safe drug. It's great to get the correct info. They need to have more of a warning on the bottle.
I have just need diagnosed with liver disease. This information is useful to me. I will be checking out the workshop coming up soon to join a network with people going through the same issues as me.
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