An international team of researchers recently concluded that men with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) have more-severe progression of their disease—with worse outcomes—compared to women with PBC. In ...

Unbearable itching, crushing fatigue and years on “standby” waiting for a liver transplant became this 43-year-old divemaster’s reality after she was diagnosed with primary biliary cholangitis – a ...

Cholestatic pruritus is a type of itching that can affect people with a liver condition called primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). It is often described as an internal itch that cannot be relieved by ...

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Compared with the recommended 4- to 7-day antibiotic course, a 1-day regimen achieved similar clinical cure rates, with no ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The approval marks the first therapy for cholestatic pruritus in primary biliary cholangitis. Patients assigned ...

—A Danish cohort study found higher levels of the inflammation marker SCD163 were associated with lower quality of life in primary biliary cholangitis patients. Patients with primary biliary ...

S ince there’s no cure for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), the main treatment goal is to slow disease progression and ease symptoms, such as itching. The good news is that, for most people, the ...

Credit: Shutterstock. EASL recommends the use of oral ursodeoxycholic acid at 13—15mg/kg/day as first-line treatment for patients with primary biliary cholangitis; treatment is usually continued for ...

In 2016, obeticholic acid became the first new licensed therapy for primary biliary cholangitis in >20 years. This therapeutic came at a time of improved disease understanding from biliary and ...

NewsdayTV's Amy McGorry lives with autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis, which have damaged her liver ...

Primary biliary cholangitis, previously called primary biliary cirrhosis, is a cholestatic autoimmune liver disease that is marked by the progressive lymphocytic destruction of the smallest ...