by Stacey Hawkins | Jan 17, 2019 | Metabolic & Cardiovascular Disease
Fighting A Silent Epidemic Consider the liver. It’s just one of the jumble of stuff inside that makes us tick, right? What do you really know about it though—other than it’s “vital”? In fact, the liver is your largest internal organ, and plays vital roles in... 
by Stacey Hawkins | May 26, 2015 | Metabolic & Cardiovascular Disease
The Race Against Nash A silent epidemic creeping upon the Western world pushed the headline grabbing acquisition of a Phase 1 non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) drug last week. Boehringer Ingelheim (Ingelheim, Germany) acquired Pharmaxis (Sydney, Autralia) due to... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Jun 1, 2020 | Metabolic & Cardiovascular Disease
Bacon-wrapped meatloaf, chicken and waffles, cronuts! Mmm…but no wonder some of us are getting a little pudgy. According to the Center for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA), 40 percent of adults and nearly 20 percent of children and adolescents in the U.S. are obese.... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Jul 24, 2019 | Infectious Disease
Hepatitis Viruses Explained Curing disease is serious business. Lou Reed, the infamous leader of the rock band Velvet Underground, died in 2013 of complications from hepatitis C and liver disease. Death is the most profound fear for people living with hepatitis C, but... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Jun 17, 2019 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
A Pathway Lies In The Bridge Between Cells As any high school biology teacher will happily remind us, cells are the basic building blocks of all living things: you, the office ficus tree, the yeast that bubbles your beer. In animals, cells join to form tissues and...
