New Alternative Against Cirrhosis
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During 1997, around 20,400 Mexicans died due to cirrhosis of the liver. The future is even more dis-couraging, as an increase of 223% in the number of Mexican deaths is predicted for 2008. Even more alarming, an increase in deaths of 360% is anticipated for 2008 throughout the world.
Researchers of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have developed a medicine,
IFC-305, that in its experimental phase has shown the ability to halt the progress of fibrosis in people suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and to regenerate the tissue of the liver.
IFC-305 has been tested at the