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Better Drinking Through Chemistry

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

If the coffee didn’t work to prevent liver disease there’s hope:

A cheap and readily available drug could reverse severe liver disease, even in patients who find it impossible to give up booze, research suggests.

Sulphasalazine is currently used to treat arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.

But a University of Newcastle team has found that it can also reverse the scarring associated with cirrhosis of the liver.

Cool. I wonder if you could just add it to beer.